Examination of four of Tanzania’s most iconic heritage sites finds they are, in the interest of generating income from tourists, being destroyed by the same institutions tasked with preserving them.

Microscopic analysis uncovers traces of a highly toxic chemical used as anaesthetic on Ming Chinese medical instruments, indicating refined medical practices were understood and followed in ancient China as early as the 14^th century CE.

Zooarchaeological and isotopic analysis of pigeon bones from Bronze Age Cyprus suggests pigeons were domesticated centuries earlier than previously attested, encouraging us to see pigeons as an important part of human life for millennia.