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npr:
Archaeologists in London have unearthed the oldest handwritten documents in Britain — a collection of notes, bills and contracts dating back nearly 2,000 years.
The discovery, a collection of more than 400 Roman waxed writing tablets, was announced Wednesday by the Museum of London Archaeology. The tablets were unearthed in London’s financial district during excavation work for a new building.
The Guardian has more on the tablets’ discovery:
“The tablets were found under a 1950s office block in the still smelly, wet mud of the lost river Walbrook, as the site was being cleared for a huge new European headquarters for Bloomberg.
” ‘They give us a glimpse into a carpet-bagging community in the new wild west frontier of the Roman empire,’ said Roger Tomlin, the expert on early Roman writing who spent a year poring over the faint scratches on slivers of fir wood recycled from old barrels.
The Bloomberg tablets, as the museum is calling them, date back to as early as A.D. 43. The tablets survived nearly two millennia because the wet mud blocked oxygen from reaching the wood and protected them from decay, the Museum of London Archaeology writes.
Hello From Londinium: Oldest Handwritten Documents In British History Discovered
Photos: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images
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Lmao ok I’m trying to be on her level
“It’s terrible”
Goalssss
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At first I was afraid to post these but then I actually thought about it and I realized I have nothing to be afraid about. I’m happy and I love myself. I didn’t get here through other people’s opinions, I got here all on my own. I finally feel free. Not having to conform to society and doing what I feel is best for me as a whole is just liberating! It’s so exciting to not have to worry about shaving or looking “perfect” when I am focus on so many other things that actually matter. Why would I remove something that naturally grows on my body and protects me? People have this idea that to be feminine you have to be hairless–which is not the case at all– you are who you want to be. Learn to love your flaws because your going to be stuck with yourself forever. So I’ll say it again I LOVE MYSELF and nothing will change that.
