Scientists have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus describing a court process from the time of the Roman occupation of Israel. The newly translated document reveals fascinating details related to a ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

The document is the longest Greek document found in the Judean Desert, spanning over 133 lines of written text.

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of ...

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered ... where technicians used a massive machine called a synchrotron to create a powerful ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.