Recently, a papyrus was unearthed from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority. It offers rare insights into ...

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

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

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

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...

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

A rediscovered Greek papyrus details a Roman court case in Iudaea involving tax fraud, forgery, and possible rebellion on the ...

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

The mantra of 'detach to protect' often misses a critical point: avoiding emotions doesn’t make them disappear.

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

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