In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...

Once upon a time, in a cave just north of Durango, Mexico, someone took a poop. In fact, it was quite a few someones, and these events were spread out over quite a bit of time—from about 725 A.D. to ...

Around 2,700 years ago, a group of local peoples worked inside salt mines in what is now the Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut region of Austria. As they toiled away ...

Iron Age Europeans enjoyed foods that are still part of our diet today — like blue cheese and beer — new research studying ancient poop has shown. As a rule, human fecal matter doesn’t tend to last ...

Scientists analyzed the feces of humans who are thought to have built Stonehenge. It was found in a nearby settlement where workers marked the construction with lavish parties. The finding gives clues ...

Ancient poop found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge revealed that the settlement’s inhabitants — who likely built the stone circle — feasted on the internal organs of cattle.

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