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 ...

With sandals that look fresher than last year’s Birkenstocks, gossipy messages recovered from writing tablets and 73,000 shards of pottery, London Museum’s new collection is like falling head-first ...

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 ...

At first glance they appear to be ordinary planks of wood marked with random scratches. But archeologists say they’re some of the oldest handwritten documents ever found in Britain – and they include ...

More than 400 Roman writing tablets have been unearthed in the heart of London, shedding light on the commerce-driven life in what would become the City of London financial hub, archaeologists said ...

Today, archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) publish research into the Bloomberg writing tablet collection – Britain’s largest, earliest and most significant collection of Roman ...

Molten wax was applied to tablets using a spatula (right), and a decorated stylus (left) was used to inscribe text in it.(Courtesy © MOLA) The largest and most ...

Calleva Atrebatum was once an Iron Age settlement, serving as the capital for the Atrebates tribe. Upon the Roman conquest of Britain in 43AD it developed into the Roman town that it remains today. It ...

In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent more of an oral and less of a learned form of written language.