{"id":2520,"date":"2025-07-24T11:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/roman-bath-in-the-town-of-shaqqa\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:37:25","slug":"roman-bath-in-the-town-of-shaqqa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/roman-bath-in-the-town-of-shaqqa\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Bath in the town of Shaqqa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Bath of Shaqqa is located in the town of Shaqqa, which served as a significant cultural and urban center during the Roman era. The bathhouse was constructed as part of a broader civic complex that included temples and watchtowers, reflecting the town\u2019s integrated urban planning.<br \/>\nIts layout reveals multi-functional chambers\u2014including steam rooms, hot and cold-water areas\u2014alongside remnants of a hypocaust underfloor heating system, a hallmark of Roman engineering. The bath remained in use through the Byzantine period, after which it gradually fell into neglect as the town\u2019s population shifted toward its outskirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Bath of Shaqqa is located in the town of Shaqqa, which served as a significant cultural and urban center during the Roman era. The bathhouse was constructed as part of a broader civic complex that included temples and watchtowers, reflecting the town\u2019s integrated urban planning. Its layout reveals multi-functional chambers\u2014including steam rooms, hot and cold-water areas\u2014alongside remnants of a hypocaust underfloor heating system, a hallmark of Roman engineering. The bath remained in use through the Byzantine period, after which it gradually fell into neglect as the town\u2019s population shifted toward its outskirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,273],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-as-suwayda","category-traditional-public-baths-as-suwayda","tag-partially-destroyed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}