Ancient Roman Wax Tablets Reveal Early London

…Archaeologists have made a truly remarkable discovery in London’s financial district, finding a collection of 410 wax tablets that date all the way back to AD 43 – the first decade of Roman rule in Britain.… The collection of 410 Latin tablets is the oldest and by far the biggest collection of early writing in Britain and gives a remarkable – if fragmented – insight into life in the first decades of Roman rule.…