A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip in stunningly well-preserved wax ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

In the past, there were few protocols for the proper excavation and preservation of artifacts in London, a city rich […] ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

The auction house claimed the tablet could be dated to the late Roman-Byzantine era ... Jewish people were using a more modern form of writing than the paleo-Hebrew that the tablets are inscribed ...

Writing on a wax tablet with a metal pencil called a stylus. He’s a tax collector, taking money from people to pay for Romans roads and armies. ANITA: But, we’re NOT Roman, we didn’t ask for ...