Some Catholic feminists argue that views of women’s blood pollution still influence the church’s position against women’s ordination.

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Ancient people of Mount Athos, Greece probably owed their longevity to their bizarre eating habits. Let's take a look at the snake-eaters.

2,000-year-old vial containing brown flakes has been found to hold dried human faeces and thyme ...

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How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, synthesizing and reevaluating existing archaeological evidence, ...

Sealed 2,000-year-old vial from Turkey contains actual human feces mixed with thyme. First physical proof Romans prescribed poop pills.

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

The University of Pittsburgh’s latest academic excursion shoots for the stars, but studies something very human: Biomedicine.

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 ...

The study of a 1,900-year-old vial found in Pergamon suggests that the Romans used feces as medicine, and thyme to mask the ...

Scientists identified coprostanol and carvacrol in a Roman vial, proving that "filth" was a key ingredient in ancient cures.