There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

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

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The scroll was discovered in the town of Herculaneum, a town destroyed in the volcanic eruption that buried neighbouring ...

Thirty feet under the surface of the cold, murky Baltic Sea, Brendan Foley spotted something unusual in the wreckage of an ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

An "historic breakthrough" has been made as researchers have provided the first look inside an ancient Roman scroll in 2,000 years.

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition ...

Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds ... strides forward made with imaging and AI are enabling us to look inside scrolls that have not been read for almost 2,000 ...