The main defendants, Gadalias and Saulos, stood accused of corrupt dealings, including falsified documents and fictitious ...

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

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

Back in 2014, a researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rediscovered an ancient papyrus while organizing a storeroom in the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Dead Sea Scrolls Unit. Once found ...

Archaeologists discovered a rare Greek-language papyrus in Israel’s Judean Desert, shedding light on Roman legal practices.

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

New research on the longest Greek papyrus from the Judean Desert ever discovered offers unprecedented insights into life in ...

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

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

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

Court documents from an ancient tax fraud and forgery case show that tax evasion was an issue even 2,000 years ago.

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, comprising over 133 lines of text, has been published for the first time. Initially misclassified as Nabataean, the papyrus remained ...