The tablets were thrown in a well to obscure what was written on them, but scholars painstakingly deciphered ancient ...

Roman “wax tablets” were wooden frames holding a thin layer of wax used like a reusable notepad. The wax is gone in the Tongeren material, but stylus pressure sometimes bit deep enough to leave ...

A new study shows how writing shaped life in the ancient city of Azaila, Spain, revealing trade, literacy, and Iberian–Roman ...