If you thought our coverage on the bathroom themed restaurant, Modern Toilet and its copycat in LA, Magic Restroom, was awesome, this one goes out to all you urinal fans out there. Since the year 2000 ...

Those who make a great show of being religiously pure often lead lives that are secretly very dirty -- or at least so it was in biblical times. Recent bioarchaeological findings at the ancient Dead ...

Using samples of ancient poop and dirt from a private house, public latrine, and harbor, a group of researchers has concluded that the rich and poor inhabitants of Ephesus, Turkey, may have been ...

Ancient Rome was one of the most seminal civilizations in human history. During its near 1,000-year existence members of the epic culture built monuments and technologies that still awe people today.

A latrine from the Roman baths at Sagalassos in Turkey has yielded its stinky secrets: feces contaminated with roundworms and parasites were discovered there by archaeologists interested in ancient ...

“You need to safely contain the human excreta and keep it free from flies,” says Kamal Kar, a development specialist from Kolkata, India, who devised an approach for encouraging people to build and ...

A researcher has uncovered evidence of intestinal parasites in a 500-year-old latrine from Bruges, Belgium, and while the finding may induce queasiness in some, it is expected to provide important ...

Nyakhot Deng washes her hands in front of the latrine she built herself in the Tierkidi camp for South Sudanese refugees in the western Ethiopia region of Gambella. Dagmawi Tadesse/Oxfam To improve ...

State-managed pubic lands around Columbia Falls could get parking access and an updated latrine under two proposals from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks. One project proposes to build ...

Peter Maeris a White House correspondent for CBS News. It was a first in my more than 22 years on the White House beat: coverage of a presidential latrine inspection. It happened yesterday at Fort ...