have you ever considered going to Venice? now I know what your thinking Venice is jam packed full of tourists witch I want lie it just happens to be and yes of course its all so pretty expansiveness but its also a city with an amazing amount of history and lots of small islands to visit, I have been and i do recommend it.
@rmckim They wouldn't have wanted them. Greeks tended to talk to each other whilst on the can, and weren't bothered by seeing other people do their business.
Would this be fed by an aquaduct so that there was water running every day of every season? I foresee rather horrible things happening if the city's toilets were rendered inoperable....
Actually I can say that publicly shared loos have been in use untill very recently (middle of 20th century) in some small rural towns of Europe (I'm talking about Spain here but it can probably be extented).
And now that I think about it, the absense of privacy would probably encourage the cleaning operation and the good keeping of the place since other people is watching you, unlike nowadays.
Interesting to see that pooping wasn't a taboo back in more advanced times.
I'd like to ask if are you sure they "sat" instead of "squatted" (as one would do to use the toilet you showed at the end), since I've read that the sitting toilet wasn't invented and became widespread since only a couple of centuries ago.
Or perhaps people simply didn't talk or look at each other, like with todays urinals. Sure, you can turn and look, but people are going to kick you in the face. (Horses too.)
Watching the videos of your antics in all these amazing historic places makes me wish I'd chosen to study something like History instead of Chemistry....
And I wager to say that those ancient loos were probably cleaner and better kept than most public ones today. Just visit the New York subway system! Blech!
@taltamir No evidence for that. The tops, when found in stone, show no marks of a dividing line, and the holes are quite close together. I'm struggling to think of an example of literature in which an encounter in a public loo is described. Can't think of one, but I think they exist.
LINDYBEIGE DONT FORGET ABOUT US ALL WE WANT YOUR TALK BACK
badababoopi 1 month ago
Are you a history teacher or do you study history only as a hobby?
Cyberspine 1 month ago
@Cyberspine I have a degree in archaeology. I did for a very short while teach a bit.
lindybeige 1 month ago
have you ever considered going to Venice? now I know what your thinking Venice is jam packed full of tourists witch I want lie it just happens to be and yes of course its all so pretty expansiveness but its also a city with an amazing amount of history and lots of small islands to visit, I have been and i do recommend it.
tbows7 2 months ago
@tbows7 I have been. Very photogenic. See it before it is gone.
lindybeige 2 months ago
lindybeige, I was wondering, do you had any points to make about polearms?
BlacksmithRS 2 months ago
@BlacksmithRS None that occurs to me at the moment, but one might dawn.
lindybeige 2 months ago
How do you know they didn't have curtains between individuals?
rmckim 3 months ago
@rmckim They wouldn't have wanted them. Greeks tended to talk to each other whilst on the can, and weren't bothered by seeing other people do their business.
Roflcopter4b 3 months ago
Heh, you said "Hireopolis" :D
Great video!
Timrath 3 months ago
Would this be fed by an aquaduct so that there was water running every day of every season? I foresee rather horrible things happening if the city's toilets were rendered inoperable....
themomaw 3 months ago
Isn't history wonderful!?
4Gehe2 3 months ago
Frolicking in the necropolis! :D
nokshor 3 months ago
Actually I can say that publicly shared loos have been in use untill very recently (middle of 20th century) in some small rural towns of Europe (I'm talking about Spain here but it can probably be extented).
And now that I think about it, the absense of privacy would probably encourage the cleaning operation and the good keeping of the place since other people is watching you, unlike nowadays.
duran3d 3 months ago
Interesting to see that pooping wasn't a taboo back in more advanced times.
I'd like to ask if are you sure they "sat" instead of "squatted" (as one would do to use the toilet you showed at the end), since I've read that the sitting toilet wasn't invented and became widespread since only a couple of centuries ago.
pmendes99 3 months ago
@pmendes99 They sat. It was a long bench with holes in it.
lindybeige 3 months ago
I think I read somewhere that the Minoans had flushable toilets, what you're showing here is quite inferior really =)
cilibinarii 3 months ago
@cilibinarii The Minoan ones were not very different. Many years before Thomas Crapper.
lindybeige 3 months ago
Or perhaps people simply didn't talk or look at each other, like with todays urinals. Sure, you can turn and look, but people are going to kick you in the face. (Horses too.)
Horrormane 3 months ago
Watching the videos of your antics in all these amazing historic places makes me wish I'd chosen to study something like History instead of Chemistry....
Bloodstream8 3 months ago
If someone asked why all of my favorite youtubers are British, I'd point them to this video. Both informational and amusing.
demomanchaos 3 months ago
And I wager to say that those ancient loos were probably cleaner and better kept than most public ones today. Just visit the New York subway system! Blech!
antpop1 3 months ago
"You git" XD
Yrie27 3 months ago
So you bring your own sponge on a stick or is everybody wiping from the same sponge?
Hyaeon 3 months ago
@Hyaeon Why bring your own when you can see that the ones they have are clean? Just hang it on the hook when you're finished. Germs? What are they?
lindybeige 3 months ago 9
@lindybeige
The people of the ancient world HAD to have epic immune systems!
sae1095hc 3 months ago
That's a stunning amount of beige!
RasdenFasden 3 months ago 23
why do you assume there was no privacy?
they could have easy had curtain or wood separators.
taltamir 3 months ago
@taltamir No evidence for that. The tops, when found in stone, show no marks of a dividing line, and the holes are quite close together. I'm struggling to think of an example of literature in which an encounter in a public loo is described. Can't think of one, but I think they exist.
lindybeige 3 months ago
@lindybeige thank you.
do you know if they seperated male and female toilets?
taltamir 3 months ago
@taltamir Not completely certain, but I think sometimes yes sometimes no.
lindybeige 3 months ago