The laughs get better...
'The wooden tablets, preserving the faint marks of the words written on bees wax with a metal stylus almost 2,000 years ago, are the oldest handwritten documents ever found in the UK.

The tablets were found under a 1950s office block in the still smelly, wet mud of the lost river Walbrook, as the site was being cleared for a huge new European headquarters for Bloomberg.'
They've survived all this time eh?...
'The oldest tablets, one of which was addressed “Londinio Mogontio” – to Mogontius in London – come from a layer securely dated to the first decade after the Roman invasion in AD43, through the timbers and coins also found.
That makes it the earliest reference to the Celtic name the Romans chose for their new settlement, written half a century before the Roman historian Tacitus used the name in his annals.'
So there we go, proof of London 2000 years ago. Would love to know what this securely dated process thing is...
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'The wooden tablets, preserving the faint marks of the words written on bees wax with a metal stylus almost 2,000 years ago, are the oldest handwritten documents ever found in the UK.

The tablets were found under a 1950s office block in the still smelly, wet mud of the lost river Walbrook, as the site was being cleared for a huge new European headquarters for Bloomberg.'
They've survived all this time eh?...
'The oldest tablets, one of which was addressed “Londinio Mogontio” – to Mogontius in London – come from a layer securely dated to the first decade after the Roman invasion in AD43, through the timbers and coins also found.
That makes it the earliest reference to the Celtic name the Romans chose for their new settlement, written half a century before the Roman historian Tacitus used the name in his annals.'
So there we go, proof of London 2000 years ago. Would love to know what this securely dated process thing is...
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