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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.

Humans Have Been Perfecting Avocados for 7,500 Years

Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?

A Boneyard Along the Thames River Reveals London’s Ancient Burials

See Lucy Run, 3.2 Million Years Ago

Psychedelic Traces Found on Mug From Ancient Egypt

Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru’s Desert

Church in Egyptian Desert Reveals Early Christian Burial Practices

This Cheese Stood Alone for 3,600 Years

Ancient Tablets Foretold Doom Awaiting Babylonian Kings

Helen Fisher, Who Researched the Brain’s Love Circuitry, Dies at 79

For Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, an Improbably Long Ancient Journey

Famine Drove Jamestown Settlers to Eat Native Dogs, DNA Reveals

What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.

No ‘Hippie Ape’: Bonobos Are Often Aggressive, Study Finds

It’s a Golden Age for Shipwreck Discoveries. Why?

A Plant That Flowers Underground Is New to Science, but Not to Borneo

An Ancient Woolly Mammoth Left a Diary in Her Tusk

What Lies Beneath the Vatican of the Zapotecs?

Now Showing, an Ancient Spell Book for the Dead