Ancient Egyptian Dice

[lolobardonik]

I saw this article about a 20-sided dice from ancient Egypt.

Here's the article (note that the article is not a quality archaeology article cause it's mainly aimed to D&D players)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-575 ... &tag=title

My question is:
What would be the purpose of a 20-sided dice in ancient Egypt?
I'm not sure about games, but maybe used in divination? Is that possible?

 

[David Russell]

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lolobardonik <lolobardonik@... wrote:

  I saw this article about a 20-sided dice from ancient Egypt.

Here's the article (note that the article is not a quality archaeology article cause it's mainly aimed to D&D players)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-575 ... &tag=title

My question is:
What would be the purpose of a 20-sided dice in ancient Egypt?
I'm not sure about games, but maybe used in divination? Is that possible?