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==Early Bath Houses==
Perhaps among the earliest societies with bath houses included Indus region societies in the 3rd millennium BCE, who built forms of bath houses and established rituals for bathing. In fact, one the earliest large bathing, and likely public, complexes is found in Mohenjo-daro, where the so-called "Great Bath" is often considered the earliest public bath with the main pool measuring 11.88 × 7.01. Later Indian works, such as the <i>grihya sutras</i>, discuss the importance of bathing and hygiene that emphasized bathing three times a day as a way to keep the body clean. It was also seen as a way to stay spiritually clean, demonstrating that religious concepts of cleanliness sometimes were associated with physical cleanliness.
==Later Bath Houses==
