A Brief Sauna History …
The sauna is one of the oldest forms of bathing the world has ever known. While archaeologists cannot confirm or deny the origins of the sweat bath — most certainly before the Romans — we know who perfected this fine luxury, the Norse peoples of Finland, Norway and Sweden. The Nordic people’s unique sweat bath began to gain notoriety during the Reformation, when European bath houses had disappeared as a lifestyle. In the 1500s, Klaus Magnus wrote: “Nowhere on earth is the use of the bath so necessary, as it is in the Northern lands.” Read more in this full article, Sauna History.