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 ...

(CNN) At first glance they appear to be ordinary planks of wood marked with random scratches. But archeologists say they're some of the oldest handwritten documents ever found in Britain -- and they ...

More than 400 Roman writing tablets have been unearthed in the heart of London, shedding light on the commerce-driven life in what would become the City of London financial hub, archaeologists said ...

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 of Roman ...

An ancient Roman lead scroll unearthed in England three years ago has turned out to be a curse intended to cause misfortune to more than a dozen people, according to new research. Found in East ...

A tablet bearing a birthday party invite includes the earliest Latin script penned by a woman On the Roman Empire’s cold and rainy northern frontier, in what is now Britain, sat the fort of Vindolanda ...

The earliest handwritten documents in Britain have been discovered among hundreds of Roman waxed writing tablets uncovered in an archaeological dig. The wooden tablets, discovered during excavations ...

Between 2010 and 2014, archeologists digging in London’s financial district, on the site of a new British headquarters for Bloomberg, made an astonishing discovery—a collection of more than four ...

Ink tablet, hollowed out entirely on one side. A six-line text written in ink, currently being deciphered by specialists, is visible. This is a reused writing tablet. Ink tablets do not usually have a ...

Archaeologists have found London’s earliest handwritten document — an ancient IOU — among waxed writing tablets buried for almost two millennia under the city’s financial center. The Museum of London ...