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Hundreds of Ancient Dice Made From Animal Bones Were Used to Summon Gods and Predict the Future, a New Study Reveals

It’s not a party until someone brings out the animal matter. Israeli archaeologists have discovered the unusual purpose behind 600 Hellenistic-era dice fashioned from the talus bones of ancient ...
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Dice and gods on the Silk Road Chinese Buddhist dice divination in transcultural context by Brandon Dotson, Constance A, Cook, Zhao Lu

"What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist "Divination ...
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Glimpses of Tibetan divination : past and present / edited by Petra Maurer, Donatella Rossi, Rolf Scheuermann

A case of prophecy in post-imperial Tibet / Per Kvœrne -- Three dice, four faces, and sixty-four combinations : early Tibetan dice divination by the numbers / Brandon Dotson -- A preliminary analysis ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Dice and Divination: Matt Mullican’s Symbols

A few years ago, I received a gift that thrilled and scared me: an artists’ multiple by Matt Mullican and Allan McCollum that was also a game. It consisted of a small black felt bag that closed with a ...