Roman baths

In Greek : Ρωμαϊκά Λουτρά (correct me if I am wrong !)
Recently I was in one of the most important and amazing cities in Europe : Athens.
It was a blast ! Culture, food, people... Everything (and everyone) was great !

So I will upload some stuff about this trip.
Feel free to download for personal use but ask me if you wanna use it on your website ! Thank you

These baths have been excavated during works on the Athenian subway's ventilation system.

Athens expanded and thrived considerably during the principate of Hadrian. At that time, many baths
were being constructed in the city.

The baths featured here are a little bit more recent though as they date from the end of the 3rd century,
after the Herulian invasion of 267 AD. They were in used until the 6th century as such, and were then converted
into a Byzantine granary, hence the presence of big cereal jars not photographed here.

On the left lies the tepidarium (with tepid water of course !) and its marble columns. Next to it is found the caldarium
(with hot water) and its brick columns. 
Brick is indeed a conductive material that is able to bring efficiently the heat from one place to another.

In this case, from a room underneath to the caldarium floor. A vaulted passageway leading
to that underground chamber can be seen on the bottom right corner of this picture.

Pretty simple and yet incredibly clever... Practical... In two words, so Roman !