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ANCIENT CULTURES BATHS

Esthetic The most primitive baths of the ancient cultures were only dependencies of the gymnasiums and they had cold water, but at the end of the 5th century BC. they began to become complex independent facilities, located throughout the metropolis. The vestiges of ruins of this type that have been exclusively found bathrooms of the male members of government are those of the city Mohenjo-Daro in India whose date is before 2000 BC, in Crete, an island of the Greek archipelago built around from 1700-1400 BC and in the royal city in Egypt Tell el-Amarna, built around 1350 a.C. There were small versions of these same facilities for women. In Rome, Italy the Diocletian's Bath was conserved that at the moment became the Church of Santa Maria of the Angels, was the place where the water was brought of the distant sources by means of aqueducts. To heat the interior of all the rooms, a series of ducts with hot water were used, located under the floors that we...