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Guardian: Ancient bottom wipers yield evidence of diseases carried along the...
‘Personal hygiene sticks’ excavated from a 2,000-year-old latrine pit have preserved evidence of the transmission route for infectious diseases
Secrets of the Silk Road emerge from ancient latrine pit in China
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The ancient Silk Road is widely known as the main route for tea, silks and spices to be transported from the ancient world to Europe 2,000 years ago.
Ancient faeces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being...
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An ancient latrine near a desert in north-western China has revealed the first archaeological evidence that travellers along the Silk Road were responsible for...
Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being...
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2,000-year-old personal hygiene sticks with remains of cloth, excavated from the latrine at Xuanquanzhi. Credit: Hui-Yuan Yeh. Reproduced from the Journal of ...
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