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Ancient tax cheats got fed to leopards, new scroll reveals

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 14, 2025
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The Head Vestal Passes: An Ancient Roman Religious Procession, by Henry Paul Motte, (1891)

You think your tax situation is rough? Ancient tax fraudsters got fed to lions, so maybe stop whining about your 1040

A newly decoded 1,900-year-old papyrus shows how two guys tried gaming the Roman tax system and learned that Imperial Rome did not mess around with …

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