The document is the longest Greek document found in the Judean Desert, spanning over 133 lines of written text.

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus ...

“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 ...

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

The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material similar to ... of the defendants 'who may be cheaply bought' with a history of 'committing violence and sedition and banditry'.

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

Learn more about the papyrus that contains detailed medical procedures from Ancient Egypt.

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled ...

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

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