STORY: Archaeologists in Turkey have found evidence that ancient Roman medicine involved an unusual ingredient: human poop.Traces of it were found in this 1,900-year-old glass vial ...

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In the fall of 2023, NIST’s scientists in Charleston, South Carolina, received a special shipment of containers packed with baggies full of frozen human feces. Teams of scientists there and at an ...

When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was mentioned in ancient Greco-Roman medical texts by figures such as Pliny ...