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Experts Found an Ancient Papyrus Hidden in Storage. Turns Out, It's a Roman-Era Crime Drama.

An extraordinary, lengthy document dated to around 130 A.D. chronicles a legal case from ancient Judaea. The details point to two individuals being guilty of fraud, forgery, and slave trade. The ...
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Ancient papyrus documenting ‘best Roman court case since Jesus’ trial’ found in desert cave

JERUSALEM — Sometimes the most significant historical discoveries happen by accident. When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel ...
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1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals Gripping Case About Roman Tax Fraud and Forgery

In 2014, a researcher realized that the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert was not what it seemed. The newly translated scroll reveals extraordinary details of a judicial hearing ...
Live Science

1,900-year-old papyrus 'best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus'

Researchers have finally deciphered a 1,900-year-old scroll describing a tense court case during the Roman occupation of Israel. The finding reveals more about criminal cases from the time and answers ...
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Forgery and fiscal fraud: a new papyrus from Israel reveals a spectacular criminal case from the Roman empire

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveil a unique papyrus from the collections held by the Israel Antiquities Authority, ...