Archeologists in China have found the remains of what may be the world’s oldest known flush toilet. Broken parts of the 2,400-year-old lavatory, as well as a bent flush pipe, were unearthed last ...

But instead of being a place where the nobility ruled from, the discovery is a 1,300-year-old flush toilet ... in a similar fashion to how outhouses work. According to Kim, the toilet "that ...

Other flush toilets, found outside the palace in nearby structures, stored the human waste inside them, like how an outhouse works. The toilet "that directly discharges it into the river seems to ...

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 ...