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A 2,000-year-old papyrus discovered in Israel reveals sophisticated Roman legal procedures for prosecuting financial crimes, including tax evasion and document forgery related to slave trading. The ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A newly discovered Greek papyrus from the Judean Desert provides detailed insights into Roman legal proceedings, specifically addressing a case of tax fraud and ...

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Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the ...