Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanization actually spread parasites

Friday, January 8, 2016 - 10:41 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Intestinal parasites such as whipworm became increasingly common across Europe during the Roman Period, despite the apparent improvements the empire brought in sanitation technologies, archaeological evidence shows.

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