Ancient Romans used poo as medicine - and now there's visual proof ...

The discovery of 5,000-year-old bacteria – that was until recently trapped in ice – could help or hinder humanity’s battle against infection.

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to public health, but these cryogenically frozen germs might be more of a help than a hindrance.

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When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was ...

Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental procedures, but using poop as medicine is hardly a modern idea. Ancient Romans knew their… feces – or at least they liked to think they did. According ...

Ancient Greco-Roman texts discuss the use of excrement in medicine, but this is the first direct evidence we've found that ...

That single vial—an unguentarium recovered from a tomb in ancient Pergamon, once a major medical hub—has now delivered rare, chemical evidence that human feces were used as medicine in the Roman world ...

A novel bacterium recovered from 5,000-year-old ice exhibited resistance patterns to modern antibiotics, which may offer ...

The ancient Chinese root Polygonum multiflorum, which has been used for more than a thousand years to "blacken hair and ...

Archaeologists in Turkey say they have uncovered evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments, according to new research.