HISTORY OF THE SAUNA AND OTHER SWEAT LODGES
Sauna has existed for thousands of years, in numerous different forms, all over the world. The first notions about the sweat baths similar to saunas date back even from the Stone Age, some 6000 years ago. Furthermore, there are some beliefs that saunas existed in a year 6000 BC. In fact, there are some written records found, dating back from that period, where Herodotus described “how some tribes rolled hot stones into small tents, where they went to sweat”. Regardless of the accuracy of the time data, we can still say that our ancestors revealed the pleasure of sauna ages ago.
For the Finns it is likely to believe that they have sauna already for two thousand years in spite of existing evidences dating back just about the half of this time. Still, the Finnish sauna was not the only sweat “house”, but the sweat baths in various forms infiltrated in the cultures throughout the world.
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