Toilet of the World

Skarkos is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Aegean.

Akrotiri is a prehistoric settlement of the Cycladic culture along the southern shore of Thira, commonly called Santorini, the southernmost of the Cycladic islands in the Aegean sea.

Ephesus is famous for its connection to early Christianity.

The exodus of the Hebrew people out of slavery in Egypt is described in the second book of the Torah, called "Exodus" in many languages.

Ages ago, I had a "Toilets of the Bible" page.

Glass vessels found at Pergamon, a wealthy and powerful Greek city near the western coast of Asia Minor, contain residue showing that their contents also contained human feces.

The Jewish people interacted with a wide range of other cultures, picking up pieces of foreign religions and mythologies along the way.

Worship of the primeval Mother-Goddess Cybele, celebrated by priests who had castrated themselves, continued into the early Christian period at Hierapolis in south-western Anatolia.

Apollo was the primary deity of ancient Korinthos, but the city hosted mystery rites at a sacred spring, and was home to a significant Jewish population and a small but growing early Christian community.

The rites of the Eleusian Mysteries came from a Neolithic agrarian cult in Anatolia.

Gustave Caillebotte was best known as a patron and promoter of art and not as an artist himself.

The great surrealist was born in 1904 in Figueras, in the northeast corner of Spain within Catalonia.

Like their stationary Spanish cousins, the toilets in Spanish trains and train stations are very nice.

Osaka was largely destroyed by U.S. bombing during World War II.

Kohler's Dekoda is a US$ 600 device that you clip onto the rim of your toilet.

Pullman, Illinois, was a planned "company town" created for the workers at George Pullman's sleeper railway car factory.

Cloacina was the Roman goddess of sewers, simultaneously the goddess of filth and the goddess of beauty.

See the large public latrine next to Pompey's portico, which was used as the Roman Senate house.

Saint Peter's Basilica is one of four Papal basilicas in and around Rome.

Italy has the highest prevalence of standalone ceramic bidets I've ever seen.

A 12th century Christian basilica was built in Rome on top of a church from the late 4th century.

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is home to the mysterious mo'ai, the megalithic statues representing deified ancestors.

Eugene V.

On a recent visit to Japan I was first mystified, then impressed, and eventually VERY impressed by the presence of fixtures specifically for colostomy and related patients in public toilets.

In 2020–2023 the Shibuya Ward city government established the Tokyo Toilet project.

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