The Erfurt Latrine Disaster: When 60 Nobles Drowned in 1184
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster: When 60 Nobles Drowned in 1184 History is full of grand tragedies. Battles lost, cities burned, empires undone by ambition. And then there is the Erfurt Latrine Disaster, an event so undignified that for centuries people assumed it had to be a joke. It was not. On a summer morning in…