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Is this the oldest d20 on Earth?
io9 ^ | Tuesday, November 6, 2012 | Robert T. Gonzalez

Posted on 11/06/2012 5:10:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Romans may have used 20-Sided die almost two millennia before D&D, but people in ancient Egypt were casting icosahedra even earlier. Pictured above is a twenty-faced die dating from somewhere between 304 and 30 B.C., a timespan alsoknown as Egypt's Ptolemaic Period.

According to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the gamepiece is held, the die was once held in the collection of one Reverend Chauncey Murch, who acquired it between 1883 and 1906 while conducting missionary work in Egypt.

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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Thank god I am not the only one to do exactly that back when. Unless... do you know me?


21 posted on 11/06/2012 6:41:03 PM PST by jurroppi1
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To: Darksheare

Does a natural Theta get me Divine Intervention?


22 posted on 11/06/2012 11:21:16 PM PST by HKMk23 (The president's remarks are brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trilion.)
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To: Chode

LOL!


23 posted on 11/07/2012 6:58:04 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker ((God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.))
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To: stephenjohnbanker
close enough, yeah??? 8^)
24 posted on 11/07/2012 3:31:05 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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