ARCHAEOLOGISTS explained the rapid decline of Calleva Atrebatum, otherwise known as Silchester Roman Town, one of the UK's best-preserved Roman sites. Calleva Atrebatum was once an Iron Age settlement ...

Thousands of years before paper notepads were used, the ancient Romans who first founded and settled London recorded their day-to-day transactions—business dealings, food orders, and legal rulings—on ...

London - More than 400 Roman writing tablets have been unearthed in the heart of London, shedding light on the commerce-driven life in what would become the City of London financial hub, ...

The wooden tablets contain the earliest surviving written reference to London, and the earliest dated handwritten document from Britain: January 8, 57 -- less than 14 years after the Roman invasion.

More voices from the distant past have emerged from one of the most important discoveries of the last 25 years at a Northumberland Roman fort. The first of around 2,000 Roman writing tablets were ...

After almost 2000 years of silence, extraordinary new archaeological discoveries have allowed the first Londoners to speak again. Dozens of the earliest written texts ever found in Britain were ...