Second news item for January 2026: a new Roman healing spa has been identified in Turkey!
In recent weeks, thanks to research carried out by Professor Nevzat Çevik (Akdeniz University) in the vicinity of the Greco-Roman city of Myra (now Demre, Turkey), a new Roman thermal structure with mineral-medicinal waters has been located! This site, known for its rock-cut Lycian tombs and a monumental Roman theatre, has various structures of great […]
2026 begins with important discoveries and news: Thermalism in the Neolithic period
After several months of intense work on various projects, which we will tell you about shortly, we are resuming our practice of publishing the latest developments in the study of the origins of thermalism, with new discoveries of various kinds. Over the coming days and weeks, we will be publishing interesting news items. Stay tuned! […]
The book Archaeology of thermalism in the Iberian Peninsula is now available for free access!
Within the context of the I+D+i Project El tejido balneario durante época romana y tardoantigua en Hispania (15387/PHCS/10) (2014-2017), coordinated by G. Matilla Séiquer (professor of Ancient History at the University of Murcia) and funded by the SéNeCa Foundation (Science and Technology Agency of the Region of Murcia), a research book was carried out, focused […]
The new book on ancient thermalism, derived from the Madrid 2023 Congress, is now available in Open Access at Archaeopress !
Following the interesting congress held at the UAM, Madrid (Spain) in March 2023, a book with some of the interesting contributions made at the congress has just been published by the prestigious publisher Archaeopress. This publication “Thermalism in the Roman Provinces: The Role of Medicinal Mineral Waters across the Empire” presents new research, revisions of […]
New studies on healing waters: Archaeology of thermalism publication
A new publication a on thermal healing spas studies has been published in the prestigious online journal Engramma, nº 214. Derived of an international seminar in Siena, Chianciano Terme and San Casciano dei Bagni, the nº214 of the Engramma journal presents the results of a new season of studies focused on the archaeology of thermal […]
New Workshop “Dentro il sacro. Multiculturalismo e plurilinguismo nello scavo del Bagno Grande a San Casciano dei Bagni” (25/26 January 2023)
A workshop talking about the new discoveries of San Casciano dei Bani will take place the next 25-26th January 2023 in the Università per Stranieri di Siena, Aula Magna Virginia Woolf (Piazza Carlo Rosselli 27/28, Siena). Organized by Jacopo Tabolli, Emanuele Mariotti and Ada Salvi, some of the first results on the study of this […]
An incredible number of bronze sculptures and votive offerings have been discovered in San Casciano dei Bagni (Italy) !
Again, wonderful news gets from San Casciano dei Bagni, a small thermal medieval town in the south of Tuscany! As we published some months ago, new archaeological digs are taking place in the area of the free pool Bagno Grande, one of the hottest and most abundant thermal springs in this town. Today, we have […]
The proceedings of the “II Symposium: Aquae Flaviae, cidade termal” have been published
A new book with the Coloquium proceedings of the II Symposium “Aquae Flaviae. Cidade Termal” has been published (unfortunatly, it is not yet online). In this book, some articles about the studied made about the thermal city of Aquae Flaviae (Chaves, Portugal) has been included. There, you can find the contribution of: R. Gomes Lopes […]
A new Thermal Sanctuary has been discovered in San Casciano dei Bagni !!!
These days, some news have been published about the incredible Etruscan and Roman thermal Sanctuary of San Casciano dei Bagno (Toscany, Italy). The archaeological studies started in this small and beatiful Italian town some years ago, but the first structures were discovered in 2020 in the area of the best-known thermal spring and open thermal […]
New archaeological digs, new thermal projects
Have you been working in a Roman thermal site this summer? Let us to know about it sending us your information! Recently, a team of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / MIAS, in collaboration with the Penafiel Museum, has started an Interannual Archaeological Research Project (PIPA) entitled BAL-SAOVICENTE: Balneário romano de São Vicente (Penafiel): revisão […]
Baden/Aquae Helveticae (Switzerland) Research Project and lecture on Roman, medieval and modern spas: A diachronic and interdisciplinary view of a cultural phenomenon
The healing spa of Baden in Switzerland (Canton Aargau), the Roman Aquae Helveticae, looks back to over 2000 years of history. No doubt the sulphurous springs that surge at a temperature of 47°C were already visited and worshipped well before antiquity. The beginning of Baden as a healing spa is strongly linked to the nearby […]