Roman tablets

The speaker says that an Ancient Roman ‘tablet’ was about as thick as a present-day 1 At the site of an old 2, archaeologists discovered about 200 tablets. Roman soldiers often used tablets writing letters or documents of a 3 nature. On one tablet mentioned, the word 4 is legible as well as people’s names. An expert in what’s called 5 says that the project is very challenging. Panels on the tablets were once filled with 6, which provided the writing surface. Efforts to analyse the original texts using 7 photography were unsuccessful. New technology is also being applied to other historical texts which were written using 8