Aerial view of a 2,000-year old ancient Roman Bath ‘Basilica Therma’ in Yozgat province in Turkey. It is believed to have healed a terminally ill daughter of a Roman emperor, who once lived in Kayseri province [1200×800]
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Aerial view of a 2,000-year old ancient Roman Bath ‘Basilica Therma’ in Yozgat province in Turkey. It is believed to have healed a terminally ill daughter of a Roman emperor, who once lived in Kayseri province [1200×800]
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[link for more about the myth and more pictures of this UNESCO World Heritage site](https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/the-roman-basilica-therma-in-yozgat-maybe-the-oldest-thermal-treatment-in-the-world)
Or this more official link from UNESCO
[UNESCO link](https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6350/)
That’s pretty cool! The name Kayseri comes from ancient [Caesarea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea_(Mazaca)), by the way. It never was a long-term residence of the Roman emperors, but some of them certainly passed through, like Valentinian and Valens.
Don’t build them like that any longer.
Crazy talk: Roman baths still usable in Turkey, Hungary and even Britain, but literally none in Rome.