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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 ...

For the first time in 1,900 years, humans have been able to read ancient text dating from the height of the Roman Empire. The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material ...

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

The papyrus revealed how the imperial state dealt with financial crimes - specifically tax fraud involving slaves - in Judaea ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus," study co-author Avner Ecker, an epigrapher, or researcher of ancient inscriptions, at the Hebrew ...

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

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