 Editor in Chief Bill   | 30 Mar 2015 4:32 p.m. PST |
The excavation of a roughly 500-year-old latrine in Jerusalem has uncovered thousands of eggs from human parasites, including some that may have come from Northern Europe, a new study finds.The people who used the latrine may have been long-distance traders or on a pilgrimage, likely from Northern Europe, where these parasites were common, the researchers said. "While we will never know for sure why they made this journey, pilgrims and traders would be a plausible explanation," said the study's senior researcher, Piers Mitchell, a lecturer of biological anthropology at the University of Cambridge in England… link |
| Striker | 30 Mar 2015 5:51 p.m. PST |
Strange that it's just new now. I heard that on a podcast at least a year ago, I think it was "Medieval Archives". Interesting. |
| Crazyfrenchteacher | 30 Mar 2015 7:53 p.m. PST |
Sounds a lot like the Lloyds Bank coprolite (Viking poop)found in York. link |
| DS6151 | 30 Mar 2015 8:39 p.m. PST |
So they proved that people traveled to Jerusalem?
Wow. Ground breaking. Next up, doing the same thing in Boston. It may just turn out that some folks weren't born there! |
| Rebelyell2006 | 30 Mar 2015 9:23 p.m. PST |
Sounds a lot like the Lloyds Bank coprolite (Viking poop)found in York. Dessicated and fossilized, and it was still 7 inches long? I feel sorry for the guy who beefed that one. |
| OldGrenadier at work | 31 Mar 2015 4:24 a.m. PST |
Proof that Vikings were real he-men :) |
| jpattern2 | 31 Mar 2015 6:28 a.m. PST |
"Ulf, this Vinland food really agrees with you!"
"Yah, not like poor Skidi. He suffers from Skraeling's Revenge." |
| WaltOHara | 31 Mar 2015 6:34 a.m. PST |
I feel sorry for the guy who beefed that one. Dude! you made coffee come out of my nose! Thanks for the morning laugh! Walt |
| Rogues1 | 31 Mar 2015 7:22 a.m. PST |
"Dessicated and fossilized, and it was still 7 inches long? I feel sorry for the guy who beefed that one." This is why I come back to TMP – Thanks Rebelyell |
| Great War Ace | 31 Mar 2015 7:54 a.m. PST |
7"? That's nothing. Is the length of one's poop now some measure of, something? This is not why I come to TMP…. |
 Herkybird  | 31 Mar 2015 3:34 p.m. PST |
Puts a whole new meaning to being In-turd! |
