Nazareth

===Ancient bathhouse at Mary's Well===
In the mid-1990s, a shopkeeper discovered tunnels under his shop near [[Mary's Well]] in Nazareth. The tunnels were identified as the [[hypocaust]] of a bathhouse.<ref>SHACHAM, Tzvi. 2012. Bathhouse from the Crusader Period in Nazareth in Kreiner, R & W. Letzner (eds.). SPA. SANITAS PER AQUAM. Tagungsband des Internationalen Frontinus-Symposums zur Technik und Kulturgeschichte der antike Thermen. Aachen, 18–22. Marz 2009 : 319–326. BABESCH SUPPL. 21</ref> Excavations in 1997–98 revealed remains dating from the Roman, [[Crusade]]r, [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk]] and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] periods.<ref>Alexandre, Yardenna. 2012. Mary's Well, Nazareth. The Late Hellenistic to the Ottoman Periods.  Jerusalem, IAA Reports 49.</ref><ref>Alexandre, Y. "Archaeological Excavations at Mary's Well, Nazareth", Israel Antiquities Authority bulletin, 1 May 2006.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Is This Where Jesus Bathed? |date=22 October 2003 |author=Cook, Jonathon |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,1067930,00.html |access-date=15 December 2016 |archive-date=28 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528163531/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/oct/22/research.artsandhumanities |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Under Nazareth, Secrets in Stone |date=17 December 2002 |author=Cook, Jonathan |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |url=http://www.jkcook.net/Articles1/0021.htm |access-date=7 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216062857/http://www.jkcook.net/Articles1/0021.htm |archive-date=16 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Ancient Bath House in Nazareth |date=12 August 2008 |author=Shama-Sostar, Martina |url=http://www.nazarethbathhouse.org |access-date=28 May 2021 |archive-date=15 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915035919/http://nazarethbathhouse.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>