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Ruins of a Roman bath in Dion, Greece, showing the under-floor heating system, or hypocaust
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Ruins of the Limes Tripolitanus ( Africa ( Roman province ) | Africa )
Baelo claudia factoria. jpg | Ruins of a Roman garum factory near Tarifa, Spain
Ruins of Roman Amphitheatre in Cagliari
Ruins of Roman baths are still visible today.
* Witches ' Sabbath in Roman Ruins by Jacob van Swanenburgh ( 1608 )
Ruins of the House of the Vestals, with pedestals for Roman sculpture | statuary in the foreground
Ruins of the hypocaust under the floor of a Roman villa at La Olmeda, Province of Palencia ( Castile and León, Spain ).
* Ruins of a Roman Temple.
* Ruins of a Roman Theater.
Ruins of the old Roman town.
For many years, the Nice Jazz Festival was held on the grounds of the Roman Ruins in July each year ( since 2011 the festival moved to the Place Masséna ).
* Ruins of the Antonian Roman aqueduct.
Ruins of the camp, as well as other Roman ruins, have been found and conserved, such as the remains of Roman public baths ( thermae ). The Roman settlement was abandoned during the retreat of the Romans on the Rhine frontier by 260 AD.
Of particular note is the entrance hall, which resembles a Roman atrium with marbled columns and a painted ceiling copied from Robert Wood's Ruins of Palmyra.
* Capriccio of Roman Ruins with Figures, from the Permanent Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Ruins at the Roman theatre of Arles
Ruins of some of the other ancient Roman bridges still exist.
Ruins made-to-measure: the " Roman Ruin " in the park at Schönbrunn Palace | Schönbrunn, c 1800
Ruins of the hypocaust under the floor of a Roman villa.
Richard Brilliant described Lanciani's Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome as " undiminished in vitality as a study of ancient Roman ruins " ( 1967 ).
The archaeological site of the Roman Ruins of Villa Áulica and Convent of São Cucufate are situated near Vidigueira.
Ruins of the Roman villa of La Torrecilla.
Ruins and Greece
Delacroix followed up with Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi ( 1827 ), commemorating a siege of the previous year, and the Death of Sardanapalus, inspired by Lord Byron, which although set in antiquity has been credited with beginning the mixture of sex, violence, lassitude and exoticism which runs through much French Orientalist painting.
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi ( 1826 ), Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
With a restraint of palette appropriate to the allegory, Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi displays a woman in Greek costume with her breast bared, arms half-raised in an imploring gesture before the horrible scene: the suicide of the Greeks, who chose to kill themselves and destroy their city rather than surrender to the Turks.
In 2007, McGowan starred as the dentist ( and other, smaller characters ) in the West End transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory's revival of Little Shop of Horrors, and filmed My Life in Ruins, an American comedy film set in the ruins of ancient Greece.
This same incident-condemned throughout Western Europe for its cruelty-also inspired a prominent painting by Eugène Delacroix ( Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi ), and was mentioned in the writings of Victor Hugo.
After this incident, many people from Western Europe felt increased sympathy for the Greek cause, as manifested for example in the famous Delacroix painting Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi ( 1827 ).
Ruins and showing
About 5 km south of Bagamoyo, the Kaole Ruins with remnants of two mosques and a couple of tombs can be dated back to the 13th century, showing the importance of Islam in those early Bagamoyo times.
The Guyaju Ruins, showing ancient cave dwellings, are located in Yanqing County.
Ruins and system
Ruins of a repair shop ( yard barn ) for the old Inter-Urban rail system can still be seen on the outskirts of town.
Ruins and hypocaust
Ruins of the hypocaust under the floor of a Roman villa.
Roman and bath
Remains of the Roman road, the bridge, a religious shrine, a Roman bath, a granary, some houses and the 4th-century castrum walls and gates, have been excavated.
* 668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
* September 15 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
To the south of the fort is a large Roman bath.
The mosaics decorated the walls of a cold plunge pool in a bath house within a Roman villa at Wadi Lebda in Leptis Magna.
In 2011, Israeli archaeologists announced the discovery of Roman coins minted well after Herod's death found under the massive Meleke foundation stones in the southern section of the wall inside a ritual bath which predates the construction of the renovated Temple Mount complex and was filled in to support the new walls.
The street leads to the a public bath, restored as a museum displaying statues and sarcophagi from the Roman period.
The ruins of a first century BC Roman bath house ( known locally as the Torre Llauder ) were recently discovered and can be visited.
In fact, the imposing ruins of a great Roman bath are still to be seen and were drawn in plan and perspective by Renaissance masters, including Giuliano da Sangallo, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari.
File: Carnuntum Public Bath. jpg | The ruins of a Roman public bath at Petronell-Carnuntum
A Roman cookbook attributed to Apicius gives a recipe for preserving whole quinces, stems and leaves attached, in a bath of honey diluted with defrutum — Roman marmalade.
The Roman thermal bath is still preserved underground as are several other Roman buildings located near the center of today's Vinkovci.
The first known large Roman dome is the so-called " Temple of Mercury " in Baiae, a concrete bath hall dating from the age of Augustus ( 27 BC-AD 14 ).
Many came from former Roman bath colonies in the Pyrenees, where elements of classical hydraulics had been maintained as a living tradition.
An early Roman military presence has been found just to the North-East of the bath complex in the Walcot area of modern Bath.
Roman London had several bath houses or Thermae.
The Roman house at Billingsgate was built next to the waterfront and had it own bath.
The player and Ivan must help a Roman plumber to pump clean water to the public bath and fountain, while channeling the dirty, waste-filled water away from the latrine by correctly arranging pipes.
The process involved in taking a Turkish bath is similar to that of a sauna, but is more closely related to ancient Greek and ancient Roman bathing practices.
Moving beyond the re-use of the Roman baths in their new lands, new bath were constructed as annex buildings of mosques, the complexes of which were community center as well as houses of worship.
The following year, the first bath of its type to be built in mainland Britain since Roman times was opened in Manchester, and the idea spread rapidly.
Aix derives from Latin Aquae ( literally, " waters "; cf Aix-la-Chapelle ( Aachen ) or Aix-en-Provence ), and Aix was a bath during the Roman Empire, even before it was renamed Aquae Gratianae to commemorate the Emperor Gratian, who was assassinated not far away, in Lyon, in 383.
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