A modest 20-seat public latrine in Ostia, Rome’s bustling port city, is once again shedding light on the surprisingly communal and sophisticated sanitation culture of the Roman world. Far from being ...

Archaeologists discovered five medieval latrines in northern Germany filled with fascinating finds of everyday life in a high-class bourgeoisie society. They still ooze with the smell you might expect ...

A 13th-century notebook pulled from a medieval toilet in Paderborn, Germany, still carries legible writing on its wax pages. The same latrine contained scraps of fine silk that archaeologists believe ...