The court case referenced in the papyrus text centered on two people — Gadalias and Saulos — who forged documents related to selling and freeing slaves to get around paying Roman taxes.

Smith sensed the scroll had great value, and he also suspected the merchant selling the ancient text didn’t recognize its value. Smith purchased the papyrus and returned to buy additional pieces he ...

papyrus expert Hannah Cotton of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said in a translated statement released Jan. 28. Over the following decade, Cotton assembled a team of experts to decipher the ...

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A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of text, an ancient piece of papyrus shows how even Roman government had to ...

It is the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean desert, with over 130 lines of text. It went unnoticed for decades until is was rediscovered in 2014 by Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The papyrus ...

The scroll had been classified as Nabataean, an ancient Arabic dialect, but as Cotton Paltiel studied it, she realized that it was actually written in Greek — and the race began to decipher what the 1 ...

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