These wax tablets were the primary medium for writing in the ancient world, used by both the Greeks and Romans for nearly three millennia. Recently, scientists have, for the first time, conducted an ...

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 ...

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.