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A 4th-Century Amulet Linked to “Cancer” Comes to Light at Pisidian Antioch’s Temple of Men
A small object recovered during the 2024 excavation season at Pisidian Antioch in southwestern Turkey is drawing renewed attention for what it may reveal about illness, belief, and personal devotion in Late Antiquity. The artifact, a modest amulet dated to the 4th century CE, bears the image of a crab — a symbol closely associated…
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Roman Medicine Used Human Feces—Pergamon Now Has the Proof
For centuries, Greco-Roman medical texts described remedies made from human waste, but whether these treatments were ever truly prepared remained uncertain.A small Roman glass vessel unearthed in Pergamon has now provided the first physical proof that such remedies were not theoretical ideas, but part of everyday medical practice. The discovery comes not from a monumental…