The papyrus revealed how the imperial state dealt with financial crimes - specifically tax fraud involving slaves - in Judaea ...

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

Sometimes the most significant historical discoveries happen by accident. When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel volunteered to ...

Back in 2014, a researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rediscovered an ancient papyrus while organizing a storeroom in the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Dead Sea Scrolls Unit. Once found ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world. As it is extremely sensitive to ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveil a ...

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 ...