1,600-year-old bathhouse emerges at ancient city of Nysa
The ancient city of Nysa is known as the ‘city with two sides’ because it was built across a valley.
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Nysa in the western province of Aydın are uncovering a 1,500- to 1,600-year-old bathhouse believed to have served as a place where people washed and cleaned themselves before entering the city.
Excavations at Nysa, known as an educational and cultural center during the Roman period, are being conducted under the direction of Professor Serdar Hakan Öztaner of Ankara University’s Department of Archaeology, with the support of the Culture and Tourism Ministry.
Known as the “city with two sides” because it was built across a valley, Nysa is home to one of the best-preserved ancient libraries in Anatolia, a theater with a capacity of around 10,000 people, a stadium, three bridges bearing traces of Roman architecture and engineering and a tunnel.
