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Ancient Roman toilets did not improve sanitation
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| Thursday, January 07, 2016
| University of Cambridge
Posted on 01/08/2016 1:49:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/08/2016 1:49:16 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/08/2016 1:59:41 AM PST
by
A. Morgan
(Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
To: A. Morgan
it took another 1500 years to learn to WASH YOUR HANDS !!!!
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posted on
01/08/2016 2:03:47 AM PST
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knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: SunkenCiv
I think I see the problem....
...no toilet paper.
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posted on
01/08/2016 2:21:03 AM PST
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: knarf
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posted on
01/08/2016 2:29:18 AM PST
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samtheman
(Trump. Wall. Elect. Build.)
To: Smokin' Joe
I'm a big butt 68 year old man ... and I'd have a hard time hitting that hole just right .... the seat was a mess (imo)
Leave it to the French to develop the bidet ... a thousand years hence.
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posted on
01/08/2016 2:37:00 AM PST
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knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: SunkenCiv
In before they decide that modern sanitary practices cause Global Warming...
Anyways, it makes sense that you didn’t have 100% of the population completely healthy and vermin free. For all of the wonders and modern infrastructure that Rome brought to these regions, you still had basic, near Neolithic standards of living all around.
It did however raise the quality of life for many above caveman standards and set a precedent for modern civilization to admire and follow. The Romans were undeniably brilliant engineers.
Love these posts. Stop making me think a 4AM in the morning - lol!
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posted on
01/08/2016 2:39:28 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: knarf
Leave it to the French to develop the bidet ... a thousand years hence. They should have developed the footbath, too...(straddle the hole)
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posted on
01/08/2016 2:46:48 AM PST
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: SunkenCiv
Sure, they had worms, but they weren’t dead from cholera.
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posted on
01/08/2016 2:53:49 AM PST
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: SunkenCiv
“What have the Romans done for us?”
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:14:41 AM PST
by
Does so
(Europeans had better start "overstaying their visas" in the USA. ==8-O)
To: Flag_This
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:24:40 AM PST
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Tax-chick
(Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
To: Tax-chick
“We Jews fought the Romans at Masada; we are here, where are the Romans now?” “You’re looking at them,ax hole”- subreference ping.
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:43:34 AM PST
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Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Jimmy Valentine
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posted on
01/08/2016 3:59:16 AM PST
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Tax-chick
(Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
To: SunkenCiv
The toilet was invented in Africa. But 1000 years later, the Romans invented the hole.
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:21:44 AM PST
by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
To: SunkenCiv; Tax-chick
Closing statement of original article:
“It seems likely that while Roman sanitation may not have made people any healthier, they would probably have smelt better.”
I had come to the same conclusion half way through.
As to the parasites, you can show a traveling or slave barbarbian the baths and public toilets but that doesn’t mean they will use them consistently and drop their ingrained cultural training.
Back in the early 70’s in cosmopolitan Manhattan our design engineering firm occupied several floors in mid-town. For a period of several weeks evidence of an unassimilated phantom appeared in the toilet stalls, the toilet seats an apparent mystery to the user. Among the stains on the seat were footprints.
Eventually a newly hired Pakistani engineer was revealed to be the culprit. University educated, he nevertheless reverted to his native unhygenic practices. He was terminated soon after. He asked for the cause of termination. The answer became a classic catch phrase, “.... Because you’re a shitty engineer.”
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:36:37 AM PST
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Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:39:30 AM PST
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Jimmy Valentine
That was Tony, man.
He’s got the bolt cutter in one hand, the little fella’s little curlies in the other.
(At first I thought your post was in answer to post #10 lol)
To: SunkenCiv
Part of the problem was probably the so-called clean drinking water.
Memo to time travelers: boil water before drinking in most time-places you visit.
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:50:51 AM PST
by
samtheman
(Trump. Wall. Elect. Build.)
To: Smokin' Joe
That's the Chinese/Japanese .... still do it today
squatty potty
weird, but cool and true video ... (I have one)
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:56:38 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: Jimmy Valentine
Oh, I see. That’s a pop-culture phenomenon I missed.
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posted on
01/08/2016 4:59:24 AM PST
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Tax-chick
(Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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