The Donggung palace complex in present-day South Korea was once an elaborate lakeside retreat with at least 26 buildings used ...

Like most ancient technology, toilets seem to have been independently invented in several cultures — and went through many stages of innovation before becoming loos you’d like to use today. So take a ...

Carved from limestone, the toilet appears much like the modern-day fixture with a hole at the center leading to a septic tank. At the time the ancient toilet was in use, private toilets were the ...

The royal toilet still required manual “flushing” and emptied directly into a nearby river. One would expect that the construction of ancient Korea’s royal palace spared no expense.

Archaeologists in South Korea uncovered a 1,300-year-old flush toilet system within the ancient Donggung palace complex. The discovery sheds new light on the sophistication of sanitation ...

Researchers scouring a site in Korea, which was formerly a royal palace, discovered a flush toilet dating back 1,300 years and was reportedly used by the region’s prince. "These flush toilets ...

Archaeologists in Korea have uncovered the remains of multiple flushing toilets within a 1,300-year-old palace complex. But there was one "throne" to rule them all: The crown prince got a special ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in South Korea have uncovered ancient medieval flush toilets in a 1,300-year-old palace, including a unique system designed for the crown prince. Unlike the era's other waste disposal ...

But the ancient latrines were undisturbed and the ... “We’d like to somehow restore it to its original state.” The toilet, which was built in the first half of the Muromachi Period (1336 ...