Environmental archaeologist Monica Ramsey, at the University of Toronto, Canada, and her colleagues studied phytoliths – microscopic silica crystals that form in plant tissues – from the site.

The Challenge to Damætas ſhall belong / Menalcas ſhall ſuſtain his under Song: / Each in his turn your tuneful numbers bring; / In turns the tuneful Muſes love to ſing.

The 1999 June elections led to a surprise change in the governing coalition from the long-term ruling Christian Democrats to a rainbow group of Greens, Liberals, and Socialists.

Twyla watched it all with the stiff-lipped shock he recalled seeing on patients when he had done his emergency medicine rotation. Don't tell me, Rob said to her. Let me guess. Your ex-husband.