{"id":1980527,"date":"2023-07-22T20:36:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T00:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archaeologists-uncover-biblical-era-latrine-find-major-discovery-that-could-make-the-history-books\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T00:38:08","slug":"archaeologists-uncover-biblical-era-latrine-find-major-discovery-that-could-make-the-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archaeologists-uncover-biblical-era-latrine-find-major-discovery-that-could-make-the-history-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists find ancient latrine, make groundbreaking discovery for history books."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farchaeologists-uncover-biblical-era-latrine-find-major-discovery-that-could-make-the-history-books%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980527&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Archaeologists Uncover Biblical-Era Latrine, Find Major\u200b Discovery That Could Make the History Books<\/h2>\n<p>Recent archaeological \u200bexcavations in Jerusalem have unearthed two latrines \u2064dating\u200c back to the 7th and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-social-contagion-happens-here-are-3-historical-examples\/\" title=\"Social contagion occurs. 3 historical examples.\">6th centuries<\/a> B.C.<\/p>\n<p>A team \u2064of researchers then examined the remains of human\u2063 feces in the two latrines and \u200cfound evidence of <em>Giardia duodenalis<\/em>, a parasite that can cause dysentery.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/parasitology\/article\/giardia-duodenalis-and-dysentery-in-iron-age-jerusalem-7th6th-century-bce\/FD98E6D61F8D264616547EA4EBED69E4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parasitology<\/a>, the discovery has important implications.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis provides our first microbiological evidence for\u200b infective diarrhoeal illnesses \u2063that would have affected the populations\u200d of the ancient near east,\u201d the researchers wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Combined with \u200cexisting evidence, this new knowledge presents a fuller picture of life in the\u200b ancient \u2062world.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen we integrate descriptions from 2nd and 1st millennium BCE Mesopotamian medical\u2062 texts, it seems likely that outbreaks of dysentery due to giardiasis may have caused ill health throughout early towns across the region,\u201d\u200d the researchers added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Giardia duodenalis<\/em> remains a cause of diarrheal infections in the \u200cpresent day.<\/p>\n<p>The people of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/strange-paleo-hebrew-inscription-found-ruins-jerusalem-appears-confirm-biblical-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ancient Jerusalem<\/a>, of \u200ccourse, had no knowledge of such parasites.<\/p>\n<h3>Should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/solar-farms-spark-civil-war-in-virginia\/\" title=\"Solar Farms Spark Civil War in Virginia\">archaeological sites<\/a> in Israel be excavated?<\/h3>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Should archaeological sites in Israel be excavated?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n    <label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n    <label>No<\/label><br \/>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>      Completing this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out at \u2062anytime. You also agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n<p>      \u2062   Yes: 100%\u2064 (2 Votes)<br \/>\n \u200b\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>      No: 0% (0 Votes)<br \/>\n  \u200b\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>They did, however, have extensive and first-hand \u2062knowledge of suffering.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/archaeology\/article-744327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a>, an English news website and newspaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/researchers-use-x-ray-item-found-biblical-site-make-incredible-discovery-connect-1-specific-verse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archaeologists<\/a> uncovered\u2062 one of the two latrines\u200b in a\u2063 building\u2062 called the\u2063 House of \u2064Ahiel.<\/p>\n<p>Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II sacked Jerusalem in 586 B.C. The House of Ahiel did not survive the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s conquest of Jerusalem led to a decades-long period in Jewish history known as \u2063\u201cthe Babylonian captivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 539 B.C., Cyrus the Great, \u200dKing of Persia, conquered Babylon\u2064 and then repatriated \u200bthe exiled Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The Book of Ezra described the events\u2063 of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archaeologists-uncover-biblical-era-latrine-find-major-discovery-that-could-make-the-history-books\/\" title=\"Archaeologists find ancient latrine, make groundbreaking discovery for history books.\">early post-exilic period<\/a>, beginning with the Decree of Cyrus in\u2063 538 B.C., the return of the Jews to their homeland, and the reconstruction of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c people who used those\u2063 latrines \u200bexperienced some or all of\u2064 these events.<\/p>\n<p>Modern researchers, therefore, have\u200d done more than discover traces of a parasitic microorganism in ancient feces.<\/p>\n<p>They have revealed something new about an aspect of life for the people of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biblical-film-abraham-isaac-makes-history-award-event-praise-lord\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Testament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the confluence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/snopes-tries-pin-titanic-sub-disaster-elon-musk-basic-science-fact-makes-ruling-impossible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>, history, and \u200crevealed religion, one never knows what insights may abound.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/archaeologists-uncover-biblical-era-latrine-find-major-discovery-make-history-books\/\">Archaeologists Uncover Biblical-Era Latrine, Find Major Discovery That Could Make the History Books<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u200c Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists in Jerusalem discovered 7th and 6th century B.C. latrines, revealing human feces containing Giardia duodenalis, a dysentery-causing parasite. 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