"There's somebody home," Mark Youngblood said as he wiped away the dirt from a glass bottle he'd just unearthed. "That means there's a name on it," said Brian Mann, who stood near the 6-foot deep hole ...

It was a toilet that witnessed the birth of America: a humble pit latrine, or privy pit, dug deep into the ground behind a small Philadelphia house in the late 18th century. Latrines don't generally ...

VORDINGBORG, DENMARK—Science Nordic reports that archaeologists looking for pit houses on the southeast coast of the island of Zealand discovered what may be a Viking Age privy. The pit contained a ...

Long the subject of off-color jokes, the rural outhouse has become a distant memory for those who grew up during the Great Depression. Since so many of the old-fashioned privies have been demolished ...