Scientists analyzed the DNA in an ancient European salt miner's poop from some 2,600 years ago. They found the feces contained microbes consistent with the production of beer and blue cheese. Salt ...

Iron Age Europeans enjoyed foods that are still part of our diet today – like blue cheese and beer – new research studying ancient poop has shown. As a rule, human fecal matter doesn’t tend to last ...

Ancient Iron Age miners in what is now Austria were quite fond of beer and blue cheese, according to a new analysis, published in the journal Current Biology, of preserved paleo-poop. The researchers ...

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Scientists discovered evidence of blue cheese and beer in ancient poop, or “paleofeces,” people left behind in Austrian salt mines 2,700 years ago. Around 2,700 years ago, a group of local peoples ...

A new study of 2,600-year-old feces from an Iron Age salt miner suggested that workers at the time ate blue cheese and drank beer, suggesting they had a much more sophisticated palate than previously ...