Over 400 ancient Roman writing tablets preserved in river mud . CNN — At first glance they appear to be ordinary planks of wood marked with random scratches.

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Roman Writing Tablet. Artifacts September/October 2013. By Jarrett A. Lobell ... On the Roman Empire’s cold and rainy northern frontier, in what is now Britain, sat the fort of Vindolanda.

The writing tablets are truly a gift for archaeologists trying to get closer to the first Roman Britons.” Watch how archaeologists, linguists and conservators uncovered some of Roman London’s ...

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 ...

More than 50 Roman buildings and 15,000 artifacts were recovered, ranging from boots to jewelry, but it was the tablets that intrigued experts at the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA).