An exceptional find was a bone stylus, a writing instrument used to inscribe on wax tablets, discovered during the 2023 excavations. Late Celtic fibulae from the 1st century BC (garment clasps) made ...

Using a video microscope and chemical analysis, Robert Fuchs' team studied a total of 46 tablets and wax fragments preserved in Pompeii and the Archaeological Museum of Naples. They also examined 43 ...

Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho") fresco from Pompeii ca. 55-70 CE. Source: Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples/Public Domain In his journal of 1836, the great American poet ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a stylus wax tablet at the site of a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. Believed to be from 105-120AD, the tablet was found just 12in (30cm) from a ...

The Romans used wooden tablets covered with a layer of wax for writing Archaeologists have unearthed a stylus wax tablet at the site of a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland.