2,500-year-old poop from Jerusalem toilets contain oldest evidence of dysentery parasite

Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 18:42 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A fecal analysis from two toilets dating to biblical times in Jerusalem has revealed the oldest evidence yet of the parasite that causes dysentery.

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