Dropping your phone in the toilet feels catastrophic—but 800 years ago, a merchant in Germany did the same thing with a tiny ...

Researchers reported on a study designed to characterize the microbial diversity of ancient gut contents from two medieval latrines. Their findings “Estimating molecular preservation of the intestinal ...

Experts are using high-tech methods to decipher the cursive Latin writing inside.

Those who make a great show of being religiously pure often lead lives that are secretly very dirty -- or at least so it was in biblical times. Recent bioarchaeological findings at the ancient Dead ...

Emily loves Justin, Stop global warming, Two more weeks till I graduate! The exchange of information in public toilets is widespread. It also occurs in the world of white-footed sportive lemurs. Only ...