IOUs, a note to a brewer, and the earliest handwritten document known from Britain — these are among the 405, nearly 2,000-year-old Roman waxed writing tablets archaeologists have unearthed and ...
Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. (The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing boards excavated from Nimrud (modern Iraq) represent the first material ...
Learn how a notebook filled with handwritten notes survived inside a medieval latrine in Germany, and how the book could shed light on how merchants recorded transactions, reminders, and daily life ...