Did the ancient Greeks have outside toilets? Up-to-date archaeologists interested in esoteric problems heard last week about a handy way of finding answers to such questions—for a latrine’s humus-rich ...

The ancient site of Sybaris in Calabria, Italy. Wikipedia/AlexanderVanLoon. Public domain. Having razed the city, in 510 B.C. its enemies flooded its ruins by – Strabo writes – diverting the waters of ...