While excavating the ruins of South Korea's Donggung Palace, which was home to the crown prince of the Silla Dynasty 1,300 years ago, archaeologists came across several flush toilets. Most of them ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

I: Pre-History Through Antiquity” (Bloomsbury Publishing), which she is co-editing; “66 Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City of Rome: Sanitary, Urbanistic and Social Agency” (Brill), which she is ...

In ancient Rome, toilet gods held an especially prominent role, with specific deities tasked with maintaining the city’s sewer systems and addressing problems related to defecation. Also read ...

The ancient Romans lived in smelly cities ... Herculaneum and Ostia (cities much better preserved than Rome) had private one-seat toilets, yet they were rarely connected to the main sewer lines. They ...

Wold in 1913. The public toilets of ancient Rome were home to the tersorium, a wooden stick with a sponge attached. After using the tersorium, the sponge was cleaned by being dunked in a bucket ...