More evidence the Dead Sea Scrolls were written by a bunch of Essenes.

Odd evidence.

Tabor and Joe Zias, an Israeli paleopathologist, were part of an international team that studied soil samples outside of Qumran, an ancient settlement in the West Bank.

“The evidence shows conclusively that the area was a toilet,” Zias said in a news release, adding later, “These things had to come from human feces.”