A Soldier's Letter Home From The 3rd Century AD Deciphered
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 10:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In 2011, Rice Religious Studies graduate student Grant Adamson was doing a summer internship at Brigham Young University and tackled something that no one had been able to do in a hundred years - he deciphered 1,800-year-old letter from an Egyptian solider serving in a Roman legion in Europe. While young people always think their situation is exceptional and previous generations just don't understand, the letter shows the Roman soldier had many feelings similar to what some soldiers feel today. read more