“…What has really captured the imagination of scientists, even of archaeologists, over the past several decades, however, is DNA analysis [13,14,15]. DNA studies of ancient parasites including Trypanosoma cruzi , Plasmodium sp., Ascaris sp., T. trichiura , Enterobius vermicularis , and Clonorchis sinensis have been numerously and widely reported [13,16,17,18,19,20,21,22].…”