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Bath, the famous spa town in Somerset England, has attracted people from near and far for centuries to its healing springs and baths. Today the city is known for its beautiful Georgian architecture and as the destination for the wealthy elite...

Hisham's Palace at Khirbat Al Mafjar (the ruins of Mafjar) is an Umayyad structure that is listed among the last of the surviving antiquities of Romans and Byzantines. It was built by Walid Ibn Yazid in 734 CE near Jericho in the Jordan Valley...

Still operational Great Bath with a medieval abbey in the background in the city of Bath, UK.

Remains of the Caldarium (hottest room) in the bath complex in Aquae Sulis (Bath). The roman bath complex was in use from the middle of the 1st to the early 5th century CE. Now visible in the Roman Baths Museum in Bath, UK.

Religious mask made of tin from the Roman bath complex in Bath. Probably used by a priest during religious processions in the Roman era in Britain (1st - early 5th century CE). Now on display in the Roman Baths Museum in Bath, UK.

The most imposing building of Roman Sardis is the (much reconstructed) courtyard of the Bath-Gymnasium complex. Its design reflects the elaborate architecture of the Severian dynasty, late 2nd - early 3rd century CE.

The sacrificial altar standing in the Temple Courtyard in Aquae Sulis (Bath). The altar was used for public ceremonies and animal sacrifices during the Roman period (1st - early 5th century CE). Carvings of Jupiter, Apollo, and other Roman...

An 1884 oil on canvas, Man at his Bath, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. For the period, this was an unusual depiction of the male nude. Seen from behind as if being spied upon unawares, the man is obviously...

The pediment from the temple of Sulis Minerva is a carving of a Gorgon’s head- thought to be a “male Medusa” surrounded by hair, wings and possibly snakes. Gorgon’s heads are linked to Minerva and her Greek equivalent, Athena, as she carries...

A digital reconstruction of what the Roman Baths in modern-day Bath, England may have looked like. Reconstruction created by NeoMam Studios, commissioned by QS Supplies.