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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting about the use of getty images.

That aside, it’s fascinating to see the one in particular depicting the mechanisms for heating of the floor/rooms, and the heating of water for the baths.


6 posted on 12/21/2023 9:21:10 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: C210N

If I remember history correctly, the Romans made a big deal about sweating. They saw it as a form of cleanliness by sweating out the body’s impurities. So the elites (rich and/or military leaders) had heated baths/saunas built everywhere they took over for the elites to make themselves more pure than their subjects.


11 posted on 12/21/2023 9:50:15 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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