Bathing played a major part in ancient Roman culture and society. It was one of the most common daily activities and was practised across a wide variety...

In ancient Rome, thermae (from Greek θερμός thermos, "hot") and balneae (from Greek βαλανεῖον balaneion) were facilities for bathing. Thermae usually...

historiography, ancient Rome encompasses the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC, the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman Republic (509–27...

devised systems to enable water to be brought to population centers. Bathing in Ancient China can be traced back to Shang Dynasty 3000 years ago (1600–1046...

bathing spread to the already rich ancient Egyptian bathing culture, during Ptolemaic rule and ancient Rome. Bathing culture in Chinese literature can...

The Stabian Baths are an ancient Roman bathing complex in Pompeii, Italy, the oldest and the largest of the 5 public baths in the city. Their original...

War forced the Romans to fully adopt a coinage system. The type of money introduced by Rome was unlike that found elsewhere in the ancient Mediterranean...

of ancient Rome existed throughout the almost 1,200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome. The term refers to the culture of the Roman Republic...

(Brill, 2009), p. 255. Assa, The Great Roman Ladies, p. 73. Garrett G. Fagan, Bathing in Public in the Roman World (University of Michigan Press, 1999...

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables...