{
  "id": 3299503,
  "title": "Expert pieces together puzzle from fragments of 1,600-year-old Roman text",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/expert-pieces-together-puzzle-from-fragments-of-1-600-year-old-roman",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-25T16:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-expert-pieces-puzzle-fragments-year.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Roman law expert at the University of Cincinnati edited and translated a Latin legal text he pieced together from fragments that surprisingly survived in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years. What's less surprising? It's about taxes.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}