Listening · Part 2

Gapped TextExercise 52 of 60

You will hear a short radio report about how technology is helping archaeologists who want to learn more about some texts written over 2,000 years ago known as Roman tablets. Listen to the audio and complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

Roman tablets

The speaker says that an Ancient Roman ‘tablet’ was about as thick as a present-day (1) ........... At the site of an old (2) .........., archaeologists discovered about 200 tablets. Roman soldiers often used tablets writing letters or documents of a (3) .......... nature. On one tablet mentioned, the word…

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