{"id":13188,"date":"2022-04-11T18:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=206131"},"modified":"2022-04-11T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:32:08","slug":"corruption-in-the-ancient-world","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/corruption-in-the-ancient-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption in the ancient world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Matt Elton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 11 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>What was corruption like in the ancient world \u2013 and how can studying it help us make sense of shady dealings in the 21st century? 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