IOUs, a note to a brewer, and the earliest handwritten document known from Britain — these are among the 405, nearly 2,000-year-old Roman waxed writing tablets archaeologists have unearthed and ...

Over 400 ancient Roman writing tablets preserved in river mud . CNN — At first glance they appear to be ordinary planks of wood marked with random scratches.

Ancient Rome refers to a city that became the center of an empire that flourished for roughly 600 years. During that time, the empire would grow to stretch from northern England to the Middle East ...

When it comes to ancient education and literacy, the consensus is that most people in the ancient Roman world were illiterate. Those who could read and write were wealthy elites; it was only ...

Ancient Roman texts shed light on earliest Londoners in one of UK's most important archaeological discoveries. Wooden writing tablets found deeply buried in waterlogged ground near St Paul’s ...

Over 400 ancient Roman writing tablets preserved in river mud . CNN — At first glance they appear to be ordinary planks of wood marked with random scratches.

More than 400 ancient writing tablets were discovered during the excavation of a London building site, with the findings published Wednesday by the Museum of London Archeology.