Indoor plumbing, Silk Road style.
In Turkey, I saw my first caravanserai. It was built in the time of the Seljuks, but the caravanserais in Johanna’s time would have been similar. High, thick walls all the way around–you can see why it looked like safety to Wu Li.
There was running water by way of a fountain in the central courtyard. Lodging for people and beasts were built into the walls.
Stables for camels, horses, donkeys. Plenty of room for even a large caravan.
And in the lodging for people, indoor plumbing. Water would have run through the trough to clear the waste.
Efficient and healthy, although with my delicate twenty-first century nose I could only imagine the smell.
Which I will be signing at 2pm on December 2nd
at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Click here to pre-order.
Chatter By the Shores of the Middle Sea Everything Under the Heavens Silk and Song The Land Beyond
Meanwhile in Europe nothing close to that!
At the time of Jesus’s birth, it was a good thing that there was “no room at the inn [caravanserais]”; a private stable in a cave would have been so much more clean and less toxic!
Head of Zeus needs to acknowledge your British supporters! Bring Dana over here for a signing! And a talk!!
Great pictures that will help me picture what things looked like while I am reading the stories when my book gets here in December
Thank you for the pictures and descriptions…I envy you your trip. 🙂