Old-age toilet habits have reached the present day condition as the result of thousands of years of evolution.
Old-age toilet habits have reached the present day condition as the result of thousands of years of evolution. The excavations and investigations show that the earliest toilets go to the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC as an architectural project. With the new researches, this result can be seen even more early. When civilization development process is considered, we see these first toilets in Mesopotamia and Indus valleys which are the nations of civilization. Later on in parallel with the advance of civilizations to the west, different types of toilets were found at the Knossos palace in Grit in the 2nd century BC, in Tel-el Amarna in Egypt in the 14th century BC and in Çavuştepe Urartu in Anatolia in the 7th century BC. These earliest toilets were in a simple structure, consisting of a generally stationary toilet bowl or potty-style portable container. The first toilets in continental Greece were dated to the 4th century BC with the form of two waste drums placed in a private house in Dytos in Euboea. In Hellenistic ages, especially in Olymthos, Nemea, Priene, antique cities have private toilets with wastewater channels. In Athens, the first pioneers of the Latrines, which we call public toilets in the Roman period with the 2nd century BC, are at odds.
Architectural items as well as written sources give important clues about the toilet habits of the past. The earliest account of Greek toilet habits is obtained from the famous poet Hesiodos. According to him, it was not right to go back to the sun while the toilet was being made and to use the roads above the road. It had to be crumpled or courtyard walls. Making small toilets in the rivers or having similar behavior was considered bad. Another important historian we learned about toilet practices is Herodotos. He speaks of Egyptian women standing and men sitting in small toilets. Other important information about toilet culture is the classic game texts. For example, in the play Aristophanes '"Arılar" he mentions that Dionysos' mouthpiece is cleaned with a sponge by the slave. This shows us that the sponges in the antique age are using the same function instead of the toilet paper we use today. (...)
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