An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...

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Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The papyrus ...

A fragment of the rare Greek papyrus discovered in the Judean Desert. Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a rare Greek-language papyrus that offers an ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A newly discovered Greek papyrus from the Judean Desert provides detailed insights into Roman legal proceedings, specifically addressing a case of tax fraud and ...

In 2014, a researcher realized that the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert was not what it seemed. The newly translated scroll reveals extraordinary details of a judicial ...

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THE GOLDMINE PAPYRUS. DATE: ca. 1151–1145 B.C. MATERIAL: Papyrus. Dimensions: 9 feet by 1.3 feet. FOUND: Deir el-Medina, Egypt. The world’s oldest known geological map is a nine-foot-long ...

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