Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

By Ella Johnson SAU Theological Perspective When I arrived in the Helfta monastery in the small city of Eisleben in ...Read ...

And what they were learning to read and write was, of course, Latin. This is a wax tablet and it's what school children in Roman Britain would have used when they were learning to read and write.

These tablets, dating to the 7th century BCE, represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the ...