Excavations of Massive Roman Bath Complex in Spain Completed - Archaeology Magazine

Excavations of Massive Roman Bath Complex in Spain Completed - Archaeology Magazine

Mosaic, La Alcudia, Spain ALICANTE, SPAIN—The University of Alicante announced that after eight seasons, a team of archaeologists has finished excavations of a vast Roman bath complex at the site of La Alcudia, near the city of Elche in southeastern Spain. The area was home to the Roman colony of Iulia Ilici Augusta, which was built in two phases during the second half of the first century b.c. The colony's foundation was decreed by Julius Caesa…