Sometimes the most significant historical discoveries happen by accident. When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel volunteered to ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov explained.

Scientists have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus that describes a court proceeding from the time of Roman occupation in ...

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...

A man accused of killing two boys in the city's north end two weeks ago has been ordered to undergo an in-hospital assessment ...

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

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

According to the researchers, this is the best-documented Roman legal case from Judea, other than the trial of Jesus. The reddish-brown papyrus - about the size of A4 - was discovered in 2014 but ...

20 in the journal Tyche. The researchers found that the papyrus contained a set of notes that a prosecutor may have used to prepare for a trial in front of Roman officials during the reign of ...

While the text does not indicate how the trial ended and what happened to Saulos and Gedalias, the elaborate description of the case prompted Ecker to describe it as “the best-documented Roman ...