GENEVA, November 19 (UNHCR) - Dominique Porteaud is UNHCR's senior water and sanitation officer. The French national, who has forestry and public health engineering degrees, visits refugees camps and ...

Archaeologists discovered five medieval latrines in northern Germany filled with fascinating finds of everyday life in a high-class bourgeoisie society. They still ooze with the smell you might expect ...

Rapid assessment of wild animal population abundance is problematic, particularly for rare, cryptic felid species. However, estimates of population abundance are critical for effectively targeting ...

Archaeologists working beneath a construction site in Paderborn, Germany, have pulled one of the most unexpectedly well-preserved medieval objects in recent memory from an 800-year-old latrine: a ...

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered a rolled-up piece of lead that they think could be a medieval "curse tablet" that invokes "Beelzebub," or Satan. Upon first glance, the researchers thought ...