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What are the various sources to study Roman Empire?

Answer» Roman historians have a rich collection of sources to go on,which we can broadly divide into three groups: (a) texts,(b) documents and (c) material remains. Textual sourcesinclude histories of the period written by contemporaries (thesewere usually called ‘Annals’, because the narrative wasconstructed on a year-by-year basis), letters, speeches,sermons, laws, and so on. Documentary sources includemainly inscriptions and papyri. Inscriptions were usually cuton stone, so a large number survive, in both Greek and Latin.The ‘papyrus’ was a reed-like plant that grew along the banksof the Nile in Egypt and was processed to produce a writingmaterial that was very widely used in everyday life. Thousandsof contracts, accounts, letters and official documents survive‘on papyrus’ and have been published by scholars who arecalled ‘papyrologists’. Material remains include a very wideassortment of items that mainly archaeologists discover (forexample, through excavation and field survey), for example,buildings, monuments and other kinds of structures, pottery,coins, mosaics, even entire landscapes (for example, throughthe use of aerial photography). Each of these sources can onlytell us just so much about the past, and combining them canbe a fruitful exercise, but how well this is done depends onthe historian’s skill!<br>Various sources to study Roman Empire are:-- texts which are divided annually and are called \'annals\'.- Documents- Inscription- papyrus (reeds of a tree papryi)- mosaics


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