History News January 15, 2015

This week in history news, folks have uncovered some fun historical objects and there’s two medieval items. One o

f them has to do with historical poo, for the inner child in us all.

Seriously, though, the poo is scientifically interesting. No, really.

Paul Revere-Sam Adams Time Capsule Opened, Cool Stuff Inside

132-Year-Old Rifle Just Laying Around, Apparently

Spotlight on Little-Known Medieval Cathedral Building Material: Spoiler, It’s Iron

Mummy Poo Solves 700-Year-Old Murder Mystery

(I wrote my own headlines for the first three news items, but not the last. That is really the title Discovery gave their article. I cannot improve upon it, though I don’t think the poo actually solves the mystery completely, just opens up new information.)

Image Credit: Jack Torcello, Flickr Creative Commons