Life in Ancient Rome may seem glamorous through the lens ... a sponge on a stick to clean themselves after using public latrines. Fixed to the latrine benches, this sponge-stick was shared among ...

But, however happy you were that it was close by, a public latrine wasn’t necessarily a place you’d want to linger. In the forthcoming book “66 Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City of Rome: ...

Multiseat public latrines, which were almost always connected to the main sewer lines ... It’s clear that the lack of zoning for businesses and activities in ancient Rome knitted the rich and the poor ...

Throughout history, various cultures have attributed divine significance to toilets, latrines ... and why they mattered so much. In ancient Rome, toilet gods held an especially prominent role ...