Temazcalli or hypocaust lodges, with section showing naked men inside performing a purification ritual in the underfloor-heated house, Mesoamerica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Luigi Giarre from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.

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