Archeologists in China have found the remains of what may be the world’s oldest known flush toilet. Broken parts of the 2,400-year-old lavatory, as well as a bent flush pipe, were unearthed last ...

But instead of being a place where the nobility ruled from, the discovery is a 1,300-year-old flush toilet ... in a similar fashion to how outhouses work. According to Kim, the toilet "that ...

the system was “deceptively advanced,” possessing a flush water drainage system not terribly unlike today’s toilets. Given the toilet is estimated to be between 2,200 and 2,400 years old ...

Other flush toilets, found outside the palace in nearby structures, stored the human waste inside them, like how an outhouse works. The toilet "that directly discharges it into the river seems to ...

The researchers added that the toilet didn't flush automatically; servants poured water into the bowl after each use. "It is the first and only flush toilet to ever be unearthed in China," Liu Rui ...