Perhaps a bigger problem for today's standards of cleanliness: the Roman version of toilet paper in many cases was a communal sponge on a stick. Even worse, these public latrines were notorious ...

Pottery pieces once thought to be gaming pieces at a Roman site in West Sussex are now believed to have been used as toilet "paper". The objects have been in the Fishbourne Roman Palace collection ...

The Roman elite viewed public toilets as an instrument ... And what did they actually wipe with, given that toilet paper is a fairly recent development? Was this a men’s room or a ladies ...

Researchers believe that fragments of ceramic known as 'pessoi' were used to clean oneself in Roman ... a stack of toilet ...

Unless you have a bidet, a world without toilet paper seems impossible! Now it's left us wondering—what did people do without it in the first place? No need to fear, toilet paper is here!

In the case of the Roman artifact ... to go to the toilet, as the baths lacked a built latrine of its own," said parasites expert Piers Mitchell, a co-author of the paper. "Clearly, convenience ...

An ancient Roman toilet bowl discovered at in Serbia was revealed to contain the remains of intestinal parasites, according to a new study. Photo from the journal Sustainability Archaeologists ...

Perhaps a bigger problem for today’s standards of cleanliness: the Roman version of toilet paper in many cases was a communal sponge on a stick. Even worse, these public latrines were notorious ...