Researcher Uncovers Ancient Papyrus From a Storeroom, Provides Insight Into Criminal Cases in Roman Empire A researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem uncovered an ancient papyrus from a ...

Corie Mapp, a double leg amputee, is fresh from winning gold at the Para-bobsleigh World Championships in Switzerland. Corie took up the sport after he was injured in Afghanistan and says “going down ...

The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material similar to ... experts have been able to translate enough of the text to form a detailed reconstruction of events.

The empire had elaborate systems for tracking slave ownership and collecting various taxes related to slave transactions, including a 4% tax on slave sales and a 5% tax on manumissions. These taxes ...

The papyrus details a case involving forgery, tax evasion, and the fraudulent sale and manumission of slaves in the Roman provinces of Judea and Arabia, roughly corresponding to modern Israel and ...

While Musk functions as the head of the operation – proceeding in a manner that echoes early days of the tech billionaire’s ...

Had it been televised, the case would have made a lot of headlines. The papyrus was apparently written to help prosecutors remember their arguments. It’s essentially a prosecutor’s note ...

The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated to reveal a record of a Roman court case.

In 2014, a researcher realized that the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean ... The Jewish people had previously rebelled against the Roman Empire from 115 to 117 CE (the Jewish ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled a unique papyrus from ... a Roman citizen, had a criminal history ...