JERUSALEM — Authorities in Jerusalem announced Tuesday that archaeologists discovered a unique antique toilet going back more than 2,700-year-old toilet was a rarity in the holy city.
“Private toilet cubicles were extremely unusual in antiquity, and only a few have been discovered to date,” says the author “Yaakov Billig, the excavation’s director, stated.
Animal bones and ceramics discovered in the septic tank might reveal information about people’s lifestyles and diets at the time, as well as old illnesses, according to the antiquities authorities.