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 ...

Archaeologist Luisa Duarte poses with a Roman writing tablet in London on June 1, 2016 The earliest dated handwritten document from Britain has been unearthed in the heart of London, archeologists ...

Archaeologists have succeeded in reading ancient Roman writing on tablets that were long thought to be erased forever. These fragments come from wooden wax tablets discovered near an old Roman ...

Notes, bills and contracts dating to as early as A.D. 43 were discovered during work on a new building in London. The wooden tablets mention... Archaeologists in London have unearthed the oldest ...

Experts have deciphered writings etched on two batches of ancient Roman wooden wax tablets that were previously unreadable. The tablets were tossed into a well, presumably to ensure that nobody would ...