The ancient Egyptians went one step further with their birth control methods crafting a vaginal plug from crocodile dung.

Around 1850 B.C. Egyptian women mixed acacia leaves with ... Despite federal and state anti-birth control laws, "rubbers" were enormously popular and sales were brisk. Although the diaphragm ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four-year ...