Antique Prints to go with my Ancient Coins

randygeki · Oct 9, 2018

dougsmit said: ↑

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet
The Wikipedia article says that Vespasian charged for using his toilets but that is not the story as I have always heard it. The practice I had heard was questioned by Titus was the selling the urine collected in the toilets to laundry, tanning and other businesses that used it for the ammonia. Does anyone have a primary reference that would clarify this one way or the other?

I am firmly of the belief that 99% of all modern humans from what we term 'developed' nations would be truly shocked by the odor they would experience if time travel were possible. Rome was able to become such a large city and be relatively free from contagion because of their system of running water. I don't think the average person in most of 'history' would pay to use a toilet.
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