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Rome posted public news bulletins called the Acta Diurna, a kind of daily gazette carved or written for all to read.
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From at least the time of Julius Caesar, official notices, court outcomes, and public events were published in the Acta and displayed in public spaces, then copied and circulated. It's often called an ancestor of the newspaper.
Source: Suetonius, 'Lives of the Caesars,' Julius 20; references in Cicero and Tacitus.
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