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2,000-year-old personal hygiene sticks with remains of cloth, excavated from the latrine at Xuanquanzhi

Ancient faeces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road

22 Jul 2016

Intestinal parasites as well as goods were carried by travellers on iconic route, say researchers examining ancient latrine.

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2,000-year-old personal hygiene sticks with remains of cloth, excavated from the latrine at Xuanquanzhi

Opinion: How we discovered infectious diseases in 2,000-year-old faeces from the Silk Road

21 Jul 2016

Piers Mitchell (Department of Biological Anthropology) discusses what we can learn from rummaging around in 2,000-year-old toilets.

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Cambridge in Qatar

17 Mar 2014

Today, as part of its ongoing initiative to enable new partnerships and foster wide-ranging exchanges of knowledge and skills internationally...

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