An ancient bottle with a wide base and a long neck. This ancient unguentarium, a candlestick-like glass vessel probably used for holding medicines, was found to contain fecal biomarkers. Credit: ...

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a 1,900-year-old Roman vial that could provide the first concrete evidence of human poop ...