Beer and Birthdays: Personal Roman Letters Unearthed Near Hadrian's Wall


A cache of secret letters has been unearthed near the site of an ancient Roman fort in the United Kingdom.

The cache of faded wafer-thin slices of wood, which were written on with ink, were discovered buried in the ground near the Fort of Vindolanda on June 22. The fragile wooden letters, which had been discarded in the first century A.D., were discarded in a small excavation pit.

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