Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement in a 1,900-year-old glass vial used to hold perfumes or elixirs, which they believe is the first physical evidence that the Romans used faeces medicinally.
Previously, the practice of applying excrement to the skin to fight infections and inflammation was known only from ancient Roman texts.
Cenker Atila, an archaeologist specialising in ancient perfumes at Turkey’s Sivas Republic University, was working
