Did they washed their hands after toilet?

[Tiglath Pileser III]

In ancient Mesopotamia they believed that disease was caused by evil spirits who would enter people and cause them disease.

As a result they performed elaborate hand washing ceremonies beefore eating, praying, going to the lavatory etc.

These elbaorate hand washing ceremonies can today be seen with the Christian adoption of using the "waters of life" to purify a believer during baptism and before the Islamic prayers conducted numerous times a day.

These rituals took place thousands of years before germ theory was discovered and modern medicine advocated the rigorous use of washing hands.