Unexpected Viking toilet discovery leads to controversy

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Museum Southeast Denmark

Archaeologists excavating at an ancient Viking settlement in southeast Denmark thought they were dealing with a typical country town from the Middle Ages. Then a single toilet changed everything.

Museum of Southeastern Denmark archaeology researcher Anna Beck was digging up what she thought was a semi-subterranean workshop, only to find that she was knee-deep in… yeah, you guessed it. She’d found a layer of medieval poop.

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