A 1900-year-old papyrus found in the Judean desert turns out to be a document written by a prosecutor detailing a complex tax evasion scheme of the two men on trial.

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    “The Romans did not joke about tax evasions. They saw this, essentially, as a crime against the state,” Dolganov said. The punishment could include significant fines, temporary or permanent exile, or hard labour in mines or stone quarries — with the latter essentially a death sentence, she explained.

    Tax evasion is theft