Kim Gyeong Yeol
Recent excavations in a century -old royal palace in South Korea revealed several self -delighting bathrooms, including one 1300 years old that was used by the heir prince.
Archaeologists discovered remains of several Unpublished Sanites self -delighting at Donggung Palace – The official residence of the heir prince.
“These self -active toilets are the first of their genre”at least in Korea, he explained to the leader of the excavations and archaeologist of the Korean heritage service, Kim Gyeong Yeol.
Among the artifacts, there was a “throne” which stood out: what ruled others.
O prince heir There was a special toilet that flowed directly to a nearby river.
On the contrary, others self -cult toilets found outside the palace in nearby structures stored human waste inside.
Sanita “which unloads directly in the river [a do príncipe hedeito] seems to have a hierarchical meaning“Kim explained.
Scientists theorize that this particular retrete may have been used by the heir prince and the ladies of the court closest to him.
Donggung Palace was built in 674 AD together with a lake called “Woji Pond”.
Kim Gyeong Yeol
Who pulled self -delight first?
As Live Science remembers, although it is new to Korea, these toilets with self -delight were not the first to be invented.
The civilization of Vale do Indo, located in the current Pakistanbetween 2600 e 1900 a.C. It had cities with self -delightful toilets, indicates one, quoted by the same magazine. Self -delighting bathrooms in the Valer Valley placed the waste in a series of drains that emptied in a sewage system.
But it is the English who – wrongly – more boast of inventing self -delight. This is because, in 1596 sir John Harrington invented a device for the Queen Isabel I that released the waste to the pits – an initial version of the modern bathrooms. Barely they knew that Milenities were late.
