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| | IBRG - Bone Rolling History [page 1 of 3] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Etruscan dice found near Rome and made about 900 B.C. are similar to the dice of today, with the opposite faces adding up to seven: 1:6, 2:5, 3:4. |
 | | SPONSORED BY Sophocles claimed that dice were invented in Greece by Palamedes, who taught the game to the soldiers at the siege of Troy 3,000 years ago. |
 | | Tacitus wrote of the Germani in A.D. "They practise dice play, at which one will naturally wonder, soberly, and quite as if it were a serious business, with such hardihood in winning and losing, that, when they have nothing more left, they stake their freedom, and their person on the last cast of the die. |
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