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A recent study from the Netherlands showed that Roman dice were irregularly shaped and numbered. This could reflect their belief in “fate” than “probability.” The above is the unforgettable scene from the HBO series “Rome” where Titus Pullo tests his fate with dice in a gambling house. The 28 die studied were found throughout modern-Netherlands and 24 were found to be irregularly shaped. https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/why-ancient-romans-used-sketchy-lopsided-dice-to-gamble-and-play-board-games/ https://phys.org/news/2022-08-early-romans-lopsided-dice.html

Btw the English word "hazard" is essentially derived from Arabic "az-zahr" which translates as "the dice"

I mean I strongly suspect that the issue of comparison of ancient Rome with modern Brazilian favelas raised by Guaporense can be attributed to one of the misconceptions or biases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases?wprov=sfla1 Such things often happen no matter what science we consider, history or, lets say, astronomy 🙂 In astronomy people often make their judgement about the properties of neutron stars from the position of our earthly experience. In our world a half full glass of boiled water is gonna cool down quicker than the full glass, even if the initial temperature is the same. On neutron stars things work the opposite: the lighter a neutron star is the longer it takes to cool down