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World Service,3 mins

How to decode an ancient census

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Historian and demographer Walter Scheidel shows us how to read a 2000-year-old census from the ancient Romans in Egypt. (Photo: Papyrus containing 31 lines of Greek text. The text contains a census-return. Credit: The British Museum Images)

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