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  • That’s a nice theory but the dodecahedron was found in across a wide region of the western side of the empire and primarily in military graves. There’s also the rarer icosahedron which didn’t have large holes on the sides which really jumbles up theories. I’ll give some interesting ideas for it’s use I’ve heard.

    Cryptography, when combined with a disc-like key it could be used like “move clockwise after every word” like this guy speculate https://youtu.be/vBDgmE3d0aw. Notable issue with this is that it’s waaaay more complex to manufacture than required. You could make the first key with a hexagonal hole and the second key that slots into it. No dodecahedron required.

    Craftsman proof of expertise, since it’s very hard to manufacture it can be used as a proof you can make it. But then why was it found a lot in military graves?

    Artillery calibration, by using the holes you could put down rocks at 200m, 300m and 400m marks and see which rocks fits exactly inside inside the view when the two holes line up in size. Hard to prove and there’s no need to have such an extensive number of knobs on it to fulfill that purpose. Could save a lot of expensive metal by having it made of wood for example.

    Knitting fingers, it’s not very convenient and suuuper expensive for its purpose.

    Weaved metal, more plausible than knitting but if this was the case we would see scratches or signs of use along the holes.

    Religious artifact or recreation, this is the archaeological “we don’t have anything better” explanation. Can be used as a fancy dice or for asking the gods or something. It only sounds plausible because we don’t have anything better.

    This is why it’s still a mystery even though so many people have guessed, the knobs on every corner, difficulty to manufacture, cost, varying hole sizes and that it’s found in military graves is very hard to put together. It’s looking like we’re going to need to find a non-existing manual for it’s use.


  • We are both actively exploring the stars and the ocean. There’s still a lot we don’t know and there’s still plenty of species being discovered in rainforest all the time.

    Bacterias and viruses are also something that you can never finish exploring and there are for sure weird creatures like tardigrades that are still undiscovered.

    You’re just in time to discover genetics, epigenetics, biomechanics of nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, how to make custom creatures from DNA building blocks, protein folding applications, mysteries of how the brain works and even math as mature as it is also has tons of undiscovered parts.

    Sure you might be too late and to early for a couple of specific things but science discovery is absolutely exploding and random average Joe types are discovering things all the time. I think on the contrary now is one of the most likely things where you can just flat out discover something about the world that nobody has discovered before.