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Roman Writing Tablets Unearthed in Belgium Reveal Everyday Life and Law
Roman city wall in Tongeren, Belgium. Credit: Michel wal / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Archaeologists studying wooden writing tablets discovered in Tongeren, Belgium, say the rare finds offer one of the clearest views yet into everyday life, law, and administration in the Roman Empire’s northwestern provinces. The tablets date from the first to the early third centuries A.D. and were uncovered at two excavation sites in Tongeren, known in R…
Methodical patience and the gaze trained for the imperceptible constitute the epigraphist’s primary tools. One year after his decipherment of the Frankfurt silver inscription proved the existence of Christian believers north of the Alps in the third century, Professor Markus Scholz, Roman provincial archaeologist and expert in [...]
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