Beneath the complex is the Temple of Sulis-Minerva, the original temple built by the Romans and dedicated to the goddess ...

Care to take a bath in Bath? That’s not a strange question, actually. Since ancient times, residents and visitors in Bath, England, have been taking a dip in its restorative (and once-believed sacred) ...

Although dedicating much of the treatise to construction and materials, book VIII is about water: how to capture and store water and the architectural constructions that serve this purpose. Water was ...

Roman mosaics date back to the Bronze Age, and a new one has just been discovered at the Roman Baths in Bath, England. Wikimedia During excavations to prepare for the expansion of the area accessible ...

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A "huge" public bath area from the Roman era has been discovered in Spain in "excellent" condition. Archaeologists made the discovery in the city of Mérida—capital of the Extremadura region in the ...

View of the remarkably well-preserved wall of a Roman-era bath complex—one of many remarkable discoveries recently announced by the University of Cádiz in southeastern Spain Courtesy of the University ...

The uncovered Eastern Baths of Ilici. Credit: Universidad de Alicante After nearly a decade of meticulous research, the archaeological team from the University of Alicante (UA) has completed the ...