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TIL the Ancient Romans could have played D and D because they (and the Egyptians) invented the 20-sided die.
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So you mean the Egyptians invented it and the Greeks/Romans simply appropriated it like they did everything else.
Um, its from when Egypt was Greek.
Possibly. The article doesn't make clear which is older.
We know that Plato and co did a lot of chatting about the shape at least. Since the period of Egypt that these old dice come from is the Greek-influenced Ptolemaic, and Rome was pretty big on its Greek culture anyway, I wonder if it started use there?