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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in London have unearthed the oldest handwritten documents in Britain — a collection of notes, bills and contracts dating back nearly 2,000 years. The discovery, a collection of more ...

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 ...

A tablet bearing a birthday party invite includes the earliest Latin script penned by a woman On the Roman Empire’s cold and rainy northern frontier, in what is now Britain, sat the fort of Vindolanda ...

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 ...

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 ...