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The communal latrine at Ostia. This public latrine (forica) was installed near the Forum Baths, perhaps when the Baths themselves were repaired in the Late Empire (4th century CE).

The Square of Verulanus at Ephesus, was a spacious, arcaded courtyard for the training of athletes. It consisted of a number of buildings grouped around a central courtyard. The Great Baths or Harbor Baths, were built in the 2nd century CE...

Ancient Argos, located in the Peloponnese in Greece, was a major Mycenaean settlement in the Late Bronze Age (1700-1100 BCE) and remained important throughout the Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman periods until its destruction by the Visigoths...

The architecture of the Byzantine Empire (4th - 15th century CE) continued its early Roman traditions but architects also added new structures to their already formidable repertoire, notably improved fortification walls and domed churches...

Leptis Magna (aka Lepcis Magna), located in western Libya, North Africa, was a Phoenician city founded by Tyre in the 7th century BCE. Continuing to be a major city in the Roman period, it was the birthplace of Emperor Septimius Severus (r...

Kos (Cos) is a Greek island in the south-east Aegean, part of the Dodecanese (ancient Sporades) group which prospered in antiquity due to its location on trade routes between Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, and Anatolia. Settled from the Bronze Age...

The many Roman walls still visible today throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, be they defensive walls such as the Servian Wall or house and monument walls, tell us a great deal about the evolution of Roman construction techniques. Roman...

Head of Oceanus, detail of a mosaic from Baths of Themetra near Sousse, beginning of the 3rd century CE. Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia.

Built in 183 AD in Djemila (Roman Cuicul) during the reign of the Emperor Commodus, these thermae known as the Baths of Caracalla cover an area of ​​2600 m2. Different rooms: lockers (apodyterium); gym; dry oven (laconicum); humid chamber...

The mosaic flooring (in situ) of the frigidarium of the Baths of Caracalla, Rome. Completed c. 235 CE.