1,000-year-old flush toilet is found in Silla
The Cultural Heritage Agency said the archaeological remains of a bathroom equipped with a flush toilet used in the Silla Kingdom date (57 BC to 935) just discovered.
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The Cultural Heritage Agency said the archaeological remains of a bathroom equipped with a flush toilet used in the Silla Kingdom date (57 BC to 935) just discovered.
The National Heritage Agency team has been excavating since 2007 at the rest of Donggung and Wolji Pond in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, where there are important government buildings of the ancient kingdom.
Among the newly excavated relics announced on Tuesday showed that they discovered an ancient toilet and plumbing. These toilets are designed in an inclined form, the waste will automatically drift down the drain and the connected water system will wash away this toilet system.
This is the first discovery regarding the bathroom, the Silla period toilet was found.
"The meaning of the toilets in Donggung and Wolji clearly shows the leading civilization of the ancient Silla kingdom." We can even imagine the royal bathroom. What it looked like at that time, the bathrooms were made of luxurious granite, combined with brick and tile ". - An official of CHA added.
In addition, storage facilities, a well and what is believed to be the foundation of a palace gate if confirmed, could be new findings in the field.
The vestiges associated with this palace gate will provide many important premises for archaeologists to determine the exact size of the ancient palace at the time.
It is known that Dam Donggung and Wolji are a palace complex complete with an artificial pond built in 674 by King Munmu. The first cultural relics poll conducted in 1975 unearthed more than 30,000 pieces of relics of all kinds.
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