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 ...

Romans used waxed writing tablets for note-taking, accounts and legal documents. Writing was carved into the wax, and sometimes the scratches were deep enough to score the wood beneath.

Before now, only 19 legible Roman writing tablets had been found in London, making this discovery – recovered between 2012 and 2014 – all the more remarkable. Rare Roman statue dug up in London ...

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...

Also among the tablets is a message believed to be the oldest example of writing ever discovered in the city, dating from Jan. 8, in the year 57.

The tablets, which began to be published in 2016, feature a once-popular method of Roman writing that involved using a pointed stylus to etch letters into a thin layer of wax that had been spread ...

Among 410 tablets uncovered, 87 have been deciphered, including one addressed “In London, to Mogontius” and dated to 65-80 AD, making it the earliest reference in history to London, 50 years ...

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 ...

What is it? A writing tablet Material Locally sourced wood and carbon ink Culture Roman Empire Date Ca. A.D. 100 Dimensions About the size of a postcard Found Vindolanda Fort, Northumberland, England ...

Along with hundreds of writing tablets, archaeologists have also found evidence of more than 50 Roman buildings and 15,000 other artifacts at the site. Documenting Roman London ...