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1,300-year-old poop reveals pathogens plagued prehistoric people in Mexico's 'Cave of the Dead Children'

Capone and colleagues used molecular analysis techniques to study 10 ancient desiccated feces samples — also called ...

Ancient poop from Cave of Dead Children in Mexico is ‘biological time capsule'

In the late 1950s, archaeologists discovered a cave in the Rio Zape Valley of Mexico. There were ancient human remains in the ...

Ancient poop from Mexico’s ‘Cave of the Dead Children’ teems with parasites

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...
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What appeared to be trash in a cave turns out to be a fertility altar

Explorers find five-century-old Tlacotepehua fertility altar with carved bracelets and Venus symbols in a cave in Guerrero, ...