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 ...

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

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 ...

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