TERRIFYING TOILETS OF ANCIENT ROME
Oct 01, 2022
3 minutes
by Laura Allen
Illustrated by Joy Kolitsky
text © 2022 by Laura Allen, art © 2022 by Joy Kolitsky
I’M NOT AFRAID OF TOILETS!
ME, NEITHER!
UNLESS IT’S AN ATTACK TOILET... THAT WOULD BE BAD.
WHO’S AFRAID OF their toilet? You might have been if you were an ancient Roman! And for good reason.
When archaeologists began unearthing ancient Roman cities, they sometimes found an unusual room among the beautiful columns, arches, and marbles of various public buildings. This room contained a longResearchers took a long time to realize that these ruined structures were communal, multiseat toilets.
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