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Matthew's virtual tour: Baths

Dr Matthew Nicholls explains more about baths dedicated to emporers such as Trajan, Caracalla and Diocletian through a video tour of his virtual model

Join me on a tour of some of the bathhouses of ancient Rome.

Does the sheer scale of these baths surprise you? What differences do you see between the earlier baths of Agrippa and the later imperial bathhouses such as the baths of Trajan, Caracalla or Diocletian?

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