Physicians of the Roman empire had a knack for making remedies from an assortment of components from various animals, ...
Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a ...
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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.
At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...
Chemical analysis shows a Roman flask held compound medicine, offering first proof of roman flask medical feces described in ...
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 ...
A small Roman glass flask, forgotten for centuries in the soil of Pergamon, one of the great medical centers of the ancient ...
Some of these ‘remedies’ included human feces, powdered lizards and hippo teeth.
In the late 1950s, archaeologists discovered a cave in the Rio Zape Valley of Mexico. There were ancient human remains in the cave dated to between 660 and 1430 A.D., many of which belonged to ...
Desiccated fecal material from the Cave of the Dead Children. Credit must be given to the creator.
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