Archaeology tries to understand how humans in the past lived, what kind of customs or traditions they had, through the things that they left behind or have been preserved. With these artifacts, we're able to paint a picture of what human societies and cultures were like, and how they could have evolved through time. Most of these artifacts are stored in museums or archaeological collections.
But there are some artifacts that are dubious or even dangerous, as Mark Warner, an archaeologist, and Ray von Wandruszka, a chemist, both from the University of Idaho found. They sifted through 500 artifacts over 15 years and found many weird items from the gross to the deadly. Oddee shares a list of six examples of the most dangerous and disgusting archaeological artifacts that the two have found.
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