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February 21, 2023 - 8:00am | By Kyle Cornell
(Beijing) -- Archeologists in China have turned up the remains of what might be the world's oldest known flush toilet.
Chinese state media reported last week that a research team found broken parts of a 24-hundred-year-old toilet, along with a bent flush pipe, last summer.
The ancient sanitation device was discovered among palace ruins at an archeological site in central China.
According to the state-owned China Daily, the researchers believe the toilet was located inside the palace, with a pipe leading to an outside pit.
Servants likely would have poured water into the toilet bowl every time it was used.
