The cesspit under the Somerset House is nearly 15 feet deep and contained almost 100 artifacts. Courtesy of MOLA Excavations at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London have revealed a nearly ...

ROME – Archaeologists picking through latrines, sewers, cesspits and trash dumps at Pompeii and Herculaneum have found tantalizing clues to an apparently varied diet there before the eruption of Mount ...

On a balmy July afternoon, archaeologist Roos van Oosten strides through a muddied plot of land near the center of the Dutch city of Leiden and takes an exploratory sniff. The plot, bordered on all ...

One of the things archaeology consistently teaches us is that humanity is remarkably resilient in the face of crisis. Another is that poop is forever. Archaeologists have already explored the contents ...

The Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC) reports that thrush bones discarded in a Roman cesspit at Pollentia reveal the songbirds were routine street food rather than an elite ...

Analysis of 14th-15th century latrines in Jerusalem and Riga, Latvia identifies some of the microbes resident in the guts of these pre-industrial populations, illuminating how gut contents have ...

Cesspits may truly become a thing of the past after the Water Services Corporation yesterday launched a new micro plant that can treat 45 cubic metres of waste a day. The 20-foot sewage treatment ...