Romans used poop to treat infections and inflammation, new study indicates: ‘Dark brown flakes’ discovered in medicinal vial

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a ...

Human POO was used by ancient Romans to treat two common ailments as grim ‘faeces jar’ found after 1,900 years

ANCIENT Romans used human poo to treat common ailments, archaeologists have revealed. The grim discovery is the first direct evidence that the ancient civilisation really was keeping human faeces ...
ZME Science

The world’s largest human poop is a 1200-year-old Viking treasure

At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...
C&EN

Ancient Romans used human feces to make medicines

Physicians of the Roman empire had a knack for making remedies from an assortment of components from various animals, ...
Time

Ancient Human Poop: Ah, the Tales It Can Tell

In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...
Sacramento Bee

Ancient poop from Cave of Dead Children in Mexico is ‘biological time capsule’

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 ...
Yahoo

‘Doomsday vault’ in Switzerland stores human poop to protect microbes for 100 years

A team of scientists in Switzerland is collecting and deep-freezing human poop in what they call a "doomsday" vault. The goal is to protect the invisible microbial world inside us for future ...