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This Ancient Roman ceramic pot was probably a portable toilet, study finds

Enlarge / Rim fragments of a chamber pot being excavated at a Roman villa site in Sicily. (credit: R.J.A. Wilson) Ancient Roman archaeological sites are littered with ceramic pots, and it can be challenging to definitively determine the purpose of any given pot—for instance, if it was used for storage or as a portable toilet […]

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The proof’s in the poop: Austrians have loved beer, blue cheese for 2, 700 years

Enlarge / A 2, 700-year-old piece of human excrement found at the Hallstatt salt mines, in which beans, millet, and barley are clearly visible (assuming one wishes to look that closely). Ancient Iron Age miners in what is now Austria were quite fond of beer and blue cheese, according to a new analysis, published in […]

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