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Roman baths in downtown Beirut, Lebanon [OC] (media.mstdn.social)

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Looking from a higher level down on two large rectangular hypocausts divided by a low wall. both floors are dotted with dozens of evenly-spaced pilae stacks.

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[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Baths? Those look like stacked stones.

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

That's the hypocausts, the heating system underneath the actual baths.

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

WP has a page on them here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocaust

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