1,000 years old Viking toilet unearthed
Archaeologists have excavated a two-meter (6.6 ft) deep hole in southeastern Denmark, which was revealed to be a 1,000-year-old Viking toilet.
Radiocarbon analysis of the feces in the hole dates back to the Viking Age, the period from the late 8th century to the mid-11th century, making it quite possibly the oldest toilet in Denmark.
"It was a totally random find. We were looking for pit houses, semi-subterranean workshop huts, and it really looked like that from the surface. But we soon realized that it was something totally different," Anna Beck from the Museum of Southeast Denmark told Science Nordic.
According to Beck, the discovery contradicts earlier theories surrounding human's toilet habits through time.
"We imagined that people had defecated in the midden or in the barn with the animals in order to use their waste as fertilizer for the fields," Beck said.
Archaeologists assumed that Viking towns had a well-developed system of disposing of waste, which was similar to the modern system.
Shitty story bro lol jk pardon the pun
Seems like an on going thing. I guess we'll never really know until time travel is revealed. ;)
I was thinking; after the Romans people in Europe were defecating in streets! But the Vikings! There was a scene in movie 13th warrior; "how the viking warriors wash their faces in the morning when they woke up"hunted me for many years.
They invented the Polar Bear Challenge :)
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