“Romans may have used 20-Sided die almost two millennia before D&D, but people in ancient Egypt were casting icosahedra even…

polyhedra, icosahedron, d20, 304BCE

“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 also known as Egypt’s Ptolemaic Period.”

(via http://io9.gizmodo.com/5958203/is-this-the-oldest-d20-on-earth )