Sometimes the most significant historical discoveries happen by accident. When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel volunteered to organize documents at the Israel Antiquities Authority’s scrolls ...

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

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

Scientists have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus that describes a court proceeding from the time of Roman occupation in Israel. The newly translated document reveals fascinating details about a ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the researcher recalled, according to Gizmodo. The document is identified as prosecutors’ notes for a trial before Roman officials on the eve of the Bar-Kochba Revolt (132-136 CE). It details a ...