People in Ancient History

The Romans are well known for introducing sanitation technology to Europe around 2,000 years ago, including public multi-seat latrines with washing facilities, sewerage systems, piped drinking water from aqueducts, and heated public baths for washing. Photo: Fubar Obfusco via Wikimedia Commons

The Romans Spread Parasites – Their Hygienic Innovations Gave No Health Benefit

AncientPages.com – Archaeological evidence shows that despite hygienic innovations introduced by the Romans, intestinal parasites such as whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica dysentery did not decrease as expected in Roman times compared with the preceding Iron Age. Instead, they gradually increased. The Romans are well known for introducing sanitation technology to Europe around 2,000 years ago, […]

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Kumtepe år 1994. Foto: Project Troia, Peter Jablonka.

Early European Farmers Traced To Anatolia, DNA Study Shows

AncientPages.com – An international study based on DNA from Anatolian remains and coordinated from Stockholm shows importance of the role Anatolia played, when farming spread throughout Europe some 8000 years ago. Human material from the Anatolian site Kumtepe, excavated in 1994, was used in the study conducted by the doctorate student Ayca Omrak and her colleagues

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