A 1,900-year-old Roman glass bottle from Turkey has yielded direct chemical proof of ancient physicians using human feces as ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the ancient city of Pergamon in western Turkey. - Berkan Cetin/Anadolu/Getty Images Researchers in Turkey say they have ...
Researchers scraped residue from ancient Roman bottles and discovered what might have been a medical concoction. (Ilker Demirbolat (left); Cenker Atila (right)) Some of the earliest writings — ...
Dark-brown flakes discovered inside a 1,900-year-old Roman glass vial are the first direct evidence for the use of human feces for medicinal purposes, a new chemical analysis reveals. The feces were ...