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In Lower Thames St, where the traffic roars past old Billingsgate Market and around the Tower of London, there is an anonymous door that leads to the past. It is a piece of spine-tingling magic. You ...
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Archaeologists in Italy’s Valle dei Templi have uncovered ancient Greek baths, pottery kilns, and early Christian tombs in a ...
The hypocaust, an ancient system of central heating that circulated hot air beneath the floors of the house, signals a level of luxury atypical for rural estates in Roman Gaul.
But perhaps most revealing is the heated eastern wing, which houses private thermal baths connected to underfloor heating systems — a luxury feature indicative of elite Roman taste.
View of the baths, praefurnium and east wing of the villa from the southeast. Credit: Ch. Fouquin / Inrap About 3 kilometers south of Auxerre, in the French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, ...
Pottery from the site has been stored and the actual structure, which is part buried and partly above ground, still shows the remains of the under-floor heating system and tiled clothes lockers.