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July 19th, 2016 
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You never know, items you flush down your toilet could help out an archaeologist in 300 years.
Researchers have come across an archaeological haven in some 300-year-old toilets, found beneath the building site of the soon-to-be Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.
The multiple artifacts were discovered beneath a series of 12 privies, essentially walled toilets, which were built in the 1700s. The dig was completed in late-October last year but it has taken the archaeologists months of cleaning, piecing together, and entering the finds into a computer database.
So far they think the excavation has yielded more than 82,000 artifacts that detail the story of Philadelphia before, during, and after the American Revolution. Many of these objects are thought to have been chucked down the toilet, since this was a common way to dispose of garbage before modern sanitation and public services.
The wealth of objects found almost gives a complete timeline throughout the material history of Philadelphia. The earliest artifacts are relics from leather tanneries, known to be one of Philly’s founding industries. They also found broken cups from an illegal tavern run during the American War of Independence, and the foundations of Philadelphia’s first skyscraper, completed in 1850.
Among the most exciting discoveries was a punch bowl with the words “Success to the Triphena” across it. As the museum explains, the “Triphena” was the name of a ship that sailed across the Atlantic. This has led the researchers to believe the bowl was produced by potters in Liverpool, England, just as much of the 18th-century pottery in America was.
The artifacts have a rather gruesome secret to the success of their well-preserved state, though. Live Science reports that the centuries of pee and poop created a gooey coating around the artifacts, which has actually helped preserve them.
“It doesn’t smell like fresh human waste, thank goodness, but it does have a characteristic smell,” Rebecca Yamin, the lead archaeologist, told Live Science.
Amazingly, three centuries’ worth of pee and poo creates a sticky, gooey coating that actually acts as a fantastic preservative for artifacts. The finds create a historic timeline for the city.
Some of the earliest artifacts are pieces of waste from the privies of ancient tanneries, which were among the first industries in the city. The team also uncovered fragments of broken pottery and cups from an illegal back-alley tavern that was run by a woman during Revolutionary times.
“You can really feel the people drinking and talking politics and arguing,” Yamin said.
One of the most exciting finds was a shattered Delft punchbowl with the words “Success to the Tryphena” emblazoned on it. The Tryphena was a merchant ship that regularly sailed to Liverpool, England. At one point, the Tryphena carried petitions from merchants hoping to repeal the Stamp Act, which required colonists to pay a tax on every scrap of paper.
Privies behind an area called Carter’s Alley produced typeface going back to the 1760s that came from several print shops. Several decades later, the city’s newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, got its start in that same alley.
Later, the site was home to the Jayne Building, the city’s first skyscraper, which sold over-the-counter medicines like deworming medicines. Researchers also uncovered myriad shells that were likely used by a button factory on the premises from just before World War I until World War II.
Original article on Live Science
Eddie L. is the founder and owner of WorldTruth.TV. and Womansvibe.com. Both website are dedicated to educating and informing people with articles on powerful and concealed information from around the world. I have spent the last 36+ years researching Bible, History, Alternative Health, Secret Societies, Symbolism and many other topics that are not reported by mainstream media.
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