Prediction markets have gone mainstream. Now the mechanics that powered $44 billion in volume are spreading to stock picks, ...

A collection of more than 100 protected species parts, including orangutan skulls and sea turtle taxidermy, were forfeited after years of illegal imports.

Ponzi and pyramid schemes both take advantage of unsuspecting individuals by promising extraordinary returns in exchange for their money. With Ponzi schemes, investors give money to a portfolio ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...

The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor On a summer afternoon around 4,600 years ago, ...

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