New stone fragments discovered in Turkey turned out to be the missing parts of a decree detailing a famous case of tax fraud in the Roman Empire. Reading time 3 minutes Befitting of its legacy and ...

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Archeologists have uncovered a set of court documents for an ancient Roman tax fraud and forgery case in the then-province of Judea connected to sham transactions involving the sale and manumission of ...

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A Roman law expert at the University of Cincinnati edited and translated a Latin legal text he pieced together from fragments that surprisingly survived in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years ...

It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the second century, that is — but it was of such gravity that the defendants faced charges of forgery, fiscal fraud and the sham sale of ...

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Archaeologists in western Turkey recently discovered a detailed account of 1,600-year-old tax fraud so brazen that ancient Rome made it a deadly offense. Initially believed to be funerary ode ...