TIL that this document from Ptolemaic Egypt, declaring tax exemptions for Publius Canidius Crassus in 33 BCE, may have Cleopatra's own handwriting in the form of a signature declaring "so be it" (γινέσθωι) underneath

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Women are “naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely, and those are gifts. They’re not symptoms of a disease," said Roger McFillen, a doctor on an FDA panel that largely argued against pregnant women taking antidepressants.

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The Temple in Philae was one of the last Egyptian temples to be closed. As the Byzantine Empire became increasingly hostile to any faith other than Chalcedonian Christianity, pagan worship in Philae was finally banned by Justinian I in 529.

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