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What It Was Like To Go To The Bathroom In Ancient Rome

What It Was Like To Go To The Bathroom In Ancient Rome

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You can learn a lot about a civilization by studying how they went to the bathroom, and how they got rid of human waste. A civilization's plumbing can teach us about the diets they ate, the diseases they contracted, how they conducted civil engineering projects, and possibly even what their attitudes about bathrooms were. But our information about ancient bathrooms and toilets is still fairly new, especially when it comes to ancient Rome. Until recently, the bathroom habits of the ancients weren't considered an appropriate subject for academic study. When previous archaeologists did unearth ancient toilets, they came up with fantastical alternate reasons for their uses to avoid describing how they were actually used. When Italian excavator Giacomo Boni discovered a Roman toilet in 1913, he imagined that it was a water pump that powered the entire house. To read more about Roman toilets and plumbing, go here:
Date: 2024-12-17

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I remember my mum's friend was 9 months preggars (her & her hubby have 8 kids) & hadn't chosen a name for a boy or girl. My mum & her were at a netball representative carnival & her friend needed to use the dunny. When she got out she said she'd picked a name for a girl. she got it off the public toilets door that said Siarn is a s#t. she hadda girl & that's her daughter's name
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I couldn't get pass her saying Make me look attractive. I am attractive. Not her exact words but was her point. Ana makes everything about her personally. Nothing attractive or attracting my attention with her. She is a goner, so, be gone, lady.
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I am going to watch the videos:
x What Hygiene Was Like For a Roman Emperor
x What Did Roman Soldiers Eat
x What It Was Like to Be a Roman Slave
x What It Was Like to Be a Roman Soldier
x What It Was Like to Be a Roman Gladiator

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There are five things I primarily look for before buying a house: bountiful water supply, uninterruptible electrical connection, functional sewerage system, ample security services, and a nice, friendly neighborhood
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The emperor Vespasian imposed a urine tax on the distribution of urine from Rome's public urinals, it was used as a cleaning solution. The money was used to help pay for the Colosseum.
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I'm down for whatever decade Weird History decides to go over after The 2000s. But Considering Timeline 2020 WH should do The 2010s regardless if it's before or after The 1960s.
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tbh i have reoccurring nightmares about having to pee really bad, and the only toilets available are communal style. it must be trauma from a past life
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Back then everything smelled like shit I could imagine (also because the fact that you sometimes only bathed once every 2 week or so)
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How do you decide to be a toilet archaeologist digging in ancient toilets Wonder if you make that decision on the toilet
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The sponge on the stick sharing always fascinates me and gross me out, imagine using it after someone who has diarrhoea
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