Newsweek article “'Lawless Place': Roman Prison Revealed by Disturbing Ancient Graffiti” featuring Matthew Larsen

Last month Newsweek talked to archaeologist Matthew Larsen (Theology and School of Archaeology, UCPH) who has identified remains of a 1,600-year-old Roman prison at the archaeological site of Corinth, Greece. This was done by examining the site, its graffiti and excavation records from 1901. The graffiti on the floor tiles appears to have been produced by prison inmates and contains desperate pleas and desires for vengeance.

Matthew Larsen has published his findings in an article “A Prison in Late Antique Corinth” in Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 93(2), 337–379.

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