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Romans used human feces as medicine 1,900 years ago — and used thyme to mask the smell
A new study shows that organic residues from a Roman-era glass medicinal vial came from human feces.
Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a ...
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The world’s largest human poop is a 1200-year-old Viking treasure
In 1972, beneath a Lloyds Bank in York, England, archaeologists discovered the Lloyds Bank Coprolite, a 1,200-year-old Viking ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human or animal poop of brown color lying on yellow background. Everybody poops, but only some of that poop fossilizes, turning ...
Pergamon’s setting strengthens the interpretation. The city was closely tied to the sanctuary of Asclepius and long had a reputation for healing. The Asklepion at Pergamon became one of antiquity’s ...
Poop is an unlikely biographer of human life, but it can hold rich and varied stories. Fossilized feces, known as coprolites, have revealed the diets of ancient humans, what their gut bacteria ...
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