Professor Markus Scholz

Atuatuca Tungrorum / Tongeren. Fragment of a wooden writing tablet (Cat. No. 32) mentioning honorably discharged naval soldiers (classici). Credit: Gallo-Romeins Museum Tongeren-Borgloon

News

Researchers Decode Ancient Roman Wooden Writing Tablets Found in Belgium

21 January 2026

A remarkable archaeological breakthrough led by researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt is shedding new light on how Roman administration, culture,...

News

Roman era total of 46 early settler burials discovered in Germany

17 September 2023

Students from Goethe University Frankfurt, in collaboration with the Hesse archeology department at the Darmstadt branch of the State Monument...

Researchers Decode Ancient Roman Wooden Writing Tablets Found in Belgium

Roman era total of 46 early settler burials discovered in Germany

New Posts

Buried Underwater for Centuries, This Ancient Terracotta Head Reveals Its Original Colors and True Age

Viking-Era Ship Timber Discovered in the Netherlands During Sewer Works

The Golden Helmet of Leiro: A Bronze Age Masterpiece Hidden for Millennia on Spain’s Atlantic Coast

First Four-Wheeled Chariots Found in Iron Age Britain Near Queen Cartimandua’s Capital

5,500-Year-Old Settlement Discovered on Lake Titicaca’s Island of the Sun, Bolivia—Far Earlier Than Thought

Archaeologists Find First ‘Parthenon Marbles’ Evidence at Lord Elgin’s ‘Mentor’ Wreck

15,000-Year-Old Ice Age Female Figurine Finally Returns Home to Switzerland

A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Head in a Sealed Mexican Tomb Raises Questions History Can’t Answer

They Drove Nails Into the Dead — And It Wasn’t Random: The Dark Roman Ritual Behind It

2,400-Year-Old Submerged Structures Captured Beneath Turkey’s Dicle Dam Waters