DECIPHERING THE 2000-YEAR-OLD TABLETS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE; HOW ANCIENT PEOPLE DEALT WITH SORCERERS AND THIEVES
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✍️ New studies on ancient Roman tablets found in Gloucestershire, UK, reveal the daily life of Roman-British people in the absence of police, showing that they requested help from the Roman god Mercury to recover stolen goods and punish thieves.
👉 The tablets were written in Latin and show that people in the region were literate. 👉 The letters were written to Mercury, the Roman god of wealth, fertility, and commerce. 👉 The people of the region asked for help in recovering stolen goods and punishing thieves. 👉 The tablets show that the people of the region had a complex society with a mix of Roman and British cultures. 👉 The letters reveal that the people of the region believed in the power of Mercury to protect them from thieves and to punish those who stole from them.
-- #RogerTomlin #Gloucestershire #Yuli #Oxford #history
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