The tablets were purposefully thrown in a well to obscure what was written on them, but there were still impressions on the wood scholars painstakingly deciphered.

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 ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

According to Roman mythology, what was the origin of the Latin alphabet? What was its alleged connection to the script of the ...