Romans living in ancient Britain were plagued by intestinal parasites, all of which are spread by fecal contamination ...
Credit - Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling (Source Images: Christoph Burgstedt—Getty Images, Kateryna Kon—Science Photo Library/Getty Images (2), Sinhyu/Getty Images) There are more parasites than ...
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Microscopic analysis of Roman poop proves their engineering couldn’t save them from parasites
They zoomed in on Roman poop and found a trio of intestinal miseries: roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia duodenalis. At the Roman fort of Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian’s Wall, the Romans fought the ...
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 ...
There are more parasites than any other organism on Earth—which is one of the reasons Emmitt Jolly finds the common but misunderstood creatures so fascinating. “That is the most successful form of ...
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