The document details a case of forgery, tax evasion, fraudulent sale, and manumission of slaves in the Roman provinces of ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times, Roman slavery was not based on race. Slaves in Rome might include prisoners of war, sailors captured and sold by ...

In the Roman Empire’s heyday, legal disputes and fiscal controversies were commonplace. While emperors paraded in marble-clad ...

It comprises a unique group of Phoenician, Roman, palaeochristian and Byzantine ruins alongside indigenous monuments such as the Kbor er Roumia, the great royal mausoleum of Mauritania.

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

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveil a ...

Whether they were directly involved in rebellion is still an open question, but the implications of their case cannot be ignored.” ...

A rediscovered Greek papyrus details a Roman court case in Iudaea involving tax fraud, forgery, and possible rebellion on the ...

A remarkable papyrus recently unearthed from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority offers unprecedented ...