Posted on 08/28/2023 3:00:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Spain unearthed well-preserved Roman public baths in the town of Mérida, according to city officials.
Several parts of the ancient structure were discovered during the excavations, according to an Aug. 8 Facebook post from the Mérida Monumental City Consortium.
Experts identified the baths' apodyterium — which is a dressing room, according to PBS. The changing room would have been the entry to the baths, and it would have been equipped with storage for bathers to put their clothing and belongings.
A set of intact iron bars was also discovered at the site, according to the city consortium. The bars would have covered a window. A similar set belonging to a kitchen were discovered in the 1960s.The artifacts were found among bricks and tiles, indicating that the walls and roof of the room collapsed, experts said.
The baths were discovered in Mérida, which was formerly the Roman town of Augusta Emerita, according Britannica. Augusta Emerita was founded in 25 B.C., and it quickly became one of the most important and powerful towns on the Iberian peninsula during the Roman Empire. Mérida is about 210 miles southwest of Madrid.
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I finished up my other stuff, and finally got round to requesting the edit from the Mods.
Thanks for the LiveScience link, I was going to use this one:
https://www.aol.com/news/medieval-girl-buried-face-down-154901622.html
Either that or Buffy was on vacation.
You're welcome. ;O)
We’re close enough now, but here’s what it all would have been if yours truly hadn’t been trying to do two things at the same time:
Ancient Roman baths — with changing room and iron window grates — unearthed in Spain
Moira Ritter
August 14, 2023
Miami Herald
Okay, so, imagine we have another whole GGG topic, and that this current topic had been posted flawlessly. We can dream, can't we?
Analysis of the remains of a young Medieval girl, who was buried face down with her ankles potentially tied together, suggests extra measures were taken to ensure "she could not 'return' from the grave," archaeologists have said.
The corpse of the 15-year-old was found in a pit at an Early Medieval settlement near the southeastern English village of Conington in the county of Cambridgeshire, according to the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA).
The excavation took place between 2016 and 2018 and the girl's remains have now been studied.
While Early Medieval England did not have set burial traditions, it was common practice at the time for the body of the deceased to be arranged facing upward, MOLA said in a news release on Monday.
"To be buried face-down is thought to have been a social expression of 'otherness', a burial practice reserved for people considered outside of Early Medieval society," MOLA said. "This includes those who looked or acted differently from the rest of the community, those of low social status, as well as individuals who suffered violent or unexpected deaths."
Osteologists – bone specialists – at MOLA found evidence to suggest the girl was of a low social status. They suspect she died suddenly or unexpectedly, as her bones didn't show signs of a long, serious illness.
There was evidence that she suffered from childhood malnutrition and analysis of her spine revealed that she had spinal joint disease, which would have been worsened by her carrying out tough manual labor from a young age, according to the release...
This had similarities with the burial of a woman, face down, also in a settlement's boundary ditch, in the late 8th to 9th century, around 30 miles away from where this case occurred. That woman, thought to have been executed, was missing her arms, head, neck, and part of her spine...
Radiocarbon dating was used to reveal that the child died between 680 AD and 880 AD, and archaeological work at the site suggests activity at the settlement there ended during the 8th and 9th centuries.Medieval girl buried face down, ankles possibly tied, to prevent 'return' from the graveAmarachi Orie, CNN | August 17, 2023
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