What’s a chamber pot? Bathroom history
Woman using chamber pot (Athens, Greece, ca. 480 BC. Now in Berlin) Where did people go to the bathroom? Imagine if you had to leave your house and walk to [...]
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Egyptian houses – Ancient Egypt
A model of an Egyptian house found in a tomb from the First Intermediate Period (about 2100 BC) Most Egyptian people lived in small houses like this one. The house [...]
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06, 2017
Water and sewage in ancient China
Han Dynasty model of an outhouse (ca. 100 AD) People in China, like other people around the world, used human poop to fertilize their fields and grow more food. In [...]
