The appearance of sweat-bathing…
The sauna is a form of sweat bath with a long tradition, but it is hard to define the first sauna. Already the nomad people, when they were wandering around the territory which later became Finland, had made heated holes in the ground, covered with a canvas or animal skin. These sweat-bathing places we can consider as primitive forms of saunas. But the sauna is not the only sweat bath in the world. There are many other types of 'bathing houses' among the cultures, as the Roman thermae, the Turkish baths (Hammam), the Native Americans' sweat lodge, the Japanese bath furo or Russian banja. But for the Finns we can say that sauna is still a way of life to them, and we can freely say that they are the ones who spread the sauna culture around the world.
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