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It was a flush down memory lane. A 2,400-year-old flushable toilet was discovered in China’s Shaanxi province last summer and revealed this month, reported China Daily. According to experts, the ...

Do you plan on stealing some toilet paper from public restrooms on your next trip to Beijing? Not so fast: some now have facial-recognition technology that limits toilet-goers to about 2 feet of ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of two palace buildings in Yueyang City stumbled on the oldest flush toilet ever found, photos show. Photo from the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy ...

Scientists at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, have created a new type of ultra-slippery toilet bowl, making it impossible for anything to stick to it. The new toilet ...

Centuries-old folk custom takes place near latrines, pig pens and kitchens; places where the divine spirit is said to have ...

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Archeologists in China discovered a flush toilet between 2,200 and 2,400 years old. The ancient toilet is "deceptively advanced" because of the water drainage system. "Everybody at the site was ...

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Archaeologist Liu Rui from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences couldn't believe what his excavation team found last summer ...