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A bath room at Bet Shean, ancient Scythopolis, 2009

The heating system underneath the bath floor; it was raised on brick tiles to permit warm air to circulate underneath it. The baths had an array of…

Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, Rome

A view of the remains of the entrance to the Baths of Caracalla in Rome today.

View of Rome, with Baths Indicated, University of Reading, 2017

From the University of Reading, this image is an overhead view of late antique Rome, with the major Bath houses highlighted.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, baths, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Map, Medieval, roman empire, Rome, Thermae, Urbanism, water

Plan of the Baths of Trajan, Rome, 2017

The floor plan of the Baths of Trajan in Rome, indicated are the various areas where bathers would have gone during their visit. This site was built…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, baths, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Floor Plan, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, roman empire, Rome, Thermae, Trajan, Urbanism, water

Ruins of Baths of Trajan, Rome

A view of the remains of the Baths of Trajan in Rome today. The baths were built between 104 CE and 109 CE>

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, baths, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, roman empire, Rome, Thermae, Trajan, Urbanism, water

Porta San Sebastiano, Mike Yardley, 2016

Saint Sebastian's gate, as approached from the Appian Way.

The Constantinopolitan Hippodrome, George Eastman Museum, Wikimedia Commons, 1854

A photograph of the Hippodrome in Istanbul from the mid 19th century.

Aurelian Wall, Rome, 2016

The largely intact remains of Honorius' early fifth-century enlargement of the Aurelian Wall.

Porta San Sebastiano, Rome, 2016

The remains of the inner facade of Saint Sebastian's gate.

Theodosian Walls, Istanbul, 2016

The Theodosian Walls are arguably the most defining monument of Late Antiquity. Begun, perhaps, as a response to Honorius' renovation of the Aurelian…