A recent study has identified helminth eggs during the excavation of a 7th century BCE (Iron Age) cesspit in Southern Jerusalem has provided the earliest evidence of human parasite infections in the region, and expands our understanding of the origins and dispersal of parasites in the ancient world.
A 2,700-year-old drop toilet, found at an ancient royal estate in southern Jerusalem, still shows traces of what could have been an epidemic of parasitic infection long ago.
Dig of luxury estate reveals city elite suffered from infectious disease, intestinal parasites: roundworm, tapeworm, whipworm, and pinworm, likely caused by poor sanitary conditions that caused fecal contamination of food and drinking water