A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

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Roman historian Tacitus' ancient manuscripts called Annals have ... of Christians who were spreading from Rome to Judea, writing, "an arrest was made of all who pleaded guilty to being Christian." ...

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Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other ...