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Roman soldiers didn’t only leave weapons behind.

At frontier forts such as Vindolanda, wooden writing tablets preserved fragments of everyday communication—reminding us that the people behind the armor had ordinary lives too. ⚔️

#Vindolanda #RomanLetters #RomanFrontier #AncientWriting #RomanLife
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00:00Thousands of years later, a tiny Roman writing tablet can still make one frontier soldier sound strangely human.
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