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 ...

In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent more of an oral and less of a learned form of written language.

With sandals that look fresher than last year’s Birkenstocks, gossipy messages recovered from writing tablets and 73,000 shards of pottery, London Museum’s new collection is like falling head-first ...

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 ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Roman writing styles found in Wales. Description of Roman writing ...

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 ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Description of Roman writing styles and various Roman artefacts.