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Rome’s Colosseum Was Once a Wild, Tangled Garden

(via The Atlantic) When the botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant

(via Amusing Planet) The granite quarries located along the Nile, in the city of Aswan, supplied some of the finest

(via Popular Mechanics) An Egyptian archaeological mission has found a necropolis holding at least 17 mummies near the Nile Valley

(via Popular Mechanics) New artifacts from the ancient destruction of Pompeii were recently dug up by Italian and French archeologists.

(via Atlas Obscura) Today, lice combs are a cheap, plastic affair, used in conjunction with chemical treatments to rid scalps