A recent study of human poop found in the salt mines of Hallstatt, Austria has revealed more about the Iron Age diet and the popularity of blue cheese and beer.
It is no secret that beer and cheese go hand in hand but a new study reveals how deep their roots run in Europe, where workers at a salt mine in Austria were gorging on both up to 2,700 years ago.
Scientists made the discovery by analyzing samples of human excrement found at the heart of the Hallstatt mine in the Austrian Alps. The study was on Wednesday published in the journal Current Biology.
Frank Maixner, a microbiologist at the Eurac Research Institute in Bolzano, Italy, who was the lead author of the report, said he was surprised to learn that