Iron Age feces reveal earliest evidence of dysentery-causing parasite
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A toilet seat taken from the House of Ahiel, excavated to the south of Jerusalem's Old City.A domestic building with seven rooms, it would have housed an upper-class family at the time.Date of construction is hard to pin down, with some placing it about the 8th century B.C. (F.Vukasavovic/University of Cambridge)Comment Gift Article Iron-Age Jerusalem's upper crust had access to the ultimate in luxury: latrines with carved stone seats.
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