The Toilets of Iron Age Jerusalem, A View from Below, or, Dysentery and the Bible?

This Week in the Ancient Near East

Excavation of Iron Age cesspits in Jerusalem has us thinking many things. These include 1) wow, they actually recovered protozoa that caused dysentery, how’d they do that, and, 2) umm, Jerusalem elites were really unhealthy. Our contestants try to keep the juvenile humor to a minimum.