In the storage rooms of a museum in western Turkey, an archaeologist noticed an unexpected residue inside a small Roman glass ...

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

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

At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human or animal poop of brown color lying on yellow background. Everybody poops, but only some of that poop fossilizes, turning ...

Poop is an unlikely biographer of human life, but it can hold rich and varied stories. Fossilized feces, known as coprolites, have revealed the diets of ancient humans, what their gut bacteria ...