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Hello everyone I'm Olympia thank you for being here with me in this wonderful place called Lights Out Library

and I have a great story to tell you.

Tonight, we are going to explore the stories of different ancient objects that are

mysterious and raise questions, questions about why they exist, what their practical or symbolic functions were or sometimes about how they arrived where they were found

first i will tell you about the roman dodecahedrons found in various places of the Roman Empire in large numbers.

These dodecahedrons are small objects with 12 sides, as their name indicates,

but we do not know why they were made in antiquity.

Many theories abound.

We will also go to Scotland to talk about mysterious carved stone balls from the Stone Age,

and to Costa Rica and Central America to talk about almost perfect stone spheres

that are centuries old

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