Where Did Ancient People Go to the Bathroom?

You flushed this morning and never gave it a thought. But thousands of years ago, someone had the same need with no pipes at all. So where did ancient people actually go, and how did we end up with toilets? In this video: dried droppings from a cave in Oregon, a 5,000-year-old village in Scotland, the planned drains of Mohenjo-daro, Roman latrines with a sponge on a stick, and the London cholera outbreak that led to the Great Stink. Sources: Gilbert, M. T. P. et al., "DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America," Science, 2008 Marshall, J. (ed.), Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization, 1931 Mitchell, P. D., "Human parasites in the Roman world," Parasitology Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, Letter 70 Snow, J., On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, 1855 Historic Environment Scotland, Skara Brae English Heritage, Housesteads Roman Fort WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, sanitation report #ancientbathrooms #ancienttoilets #historyoftoilets #historyofplumbing #ancientsanitation #SkaraBrae #MohenjoDaro #IndusValley #RomanLatrines #CloacaMXIMA #HadriansWall #GreatStink #historyexplained #ancienthistory #history #ancientbathrooms #ancienttoilets #historyoftoilets #historyofplumbing #ancientsanitation #SkaraBrae #MohenjoDaro #IndusValley #RomanLatrines #CloacaMaxima #HadriansWall #GreatStink #historyexplained #ancienthistory #history