ANCIENT Romans used human poo to treat common ailments, archaeologists have revealed. The grim discovery is the first direct evidence that the ancient civilisation really was keeping human faeces ...

Chemical analysis shows a Roman flask held compound medicine, offering first proof of roman flask medical feces described in ...

A cringeworthy new study has discovered dark-brown flakes inside a Roman glass medicinal vial, ...

Pergamon’s setting strengthens the interpretation. The city was closely tied to the sanctuary of Asclepius and long had a reputation for healing. The Asklepion at Pergamon became one of antiquity’s ...

This discovery also shows that substances considered unclean today were once valued as medicinal ingredients in ancient ...

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a ...

A new study shows that organic residues from a Roman-era glass medicinal vial came from human feces.

This practice reflects the Romans' resourcefulness in using available materials for medicine, despite modern views on hygiene ...

A small Roman glass flask, forgotten for centuries in the soil of Pergamon, one of the great medical centers of the ancient ...

I swear by Apollo the physician, by Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, by all the gods and all the goddesses, taking them as witnesses, that I will faithfully fulfill, according to my ability and ...