Jan 8, 2016 · Human poop from the Roman era reveals that despite the empire's famous public baths and toilets, Rome was still infested with parasites.

Jan 7, 2016 · Despite communal latrines, public baths, water aqueducts and requirements that human waste be hauled out of cities in carts, the Roman Empire was rife with parasites.

May 16, 2024 · When analyzing an ancient Roman toilet bowl, they found it was filled with the remains of parasitic roundworms. The discovery, which sheds light on public health issues in …

Jan 8, 2016 · Studies of coprolites (fossil feces) and ancient Roman toilets found unexpectedly high levels of infestations by whipworm, roundworm, and an ameba causing dysentery, writes …

Jan 8, 2016 · In research published this week in the journal Parasitology, University of Cambridge archeologist Piers Mitchell found that the presence of certain easily transferable intestinal …

Jan 8, 2016 · Archaeological evidence shows that intestinal parasites such as whipworm became increasingly common across Europe during the Roman Period, despite the apparent …

Feb 17, 2022 · Thanks to one person’s gastrointestinal grief, we now know more about ancient Roman toilet habits than ever before. As Live Science reports, archaeologists recently …

Jan 8, 2016 · Dr Piers Mitchell brought together evidence of parasites in ancient latrines, human burials and 'coprolites' -- or fossilised faeces -- as well as in combs and textiles from numerous …

Jan 8, 2016 · A study of the middens, latrines and burial grounds of ancient Britain has found evidence to suggest that parasites such as intestinal worms and skin lice actually increased …

Worms have also penetrated the old walls of these ruins. A wall, which had just been exposed to view during the excavations then in progress, was examined; it was built of large flints, and …