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 include ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have succeeded in reading ancient Roman writing on tablets that were long thought to be erased forever. These fragments come from wooden wax tablets discovered near an old Roman ...

Notes, bills and contracts dating to as early as A.D. 43 were discovered during work on a new building in London. The wooden tablets mention... Archaeologists in London have unearthed the oldest ...

Molten wax was applied to tablets using a spatula (right), and a decorated stylus (left) was used to inscribe text in it.(Courtesy © MOLA) The largest and most ...

Thousands of years before paper notepads were used, the ancient Romans who first founded and settled London recorded their day-to-day transactions—business dealings, food orders, and legal rulings—on ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in London have unearthed the oldest handwritten documents in Britain — a collection of notes, bills and contracts dating back nearly 2,000 years. The discovery, a collection of more ...