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Frankish an Mamluk Hammām in al-Marqab CitadelBalázs MAJOR, Gergely BUZÁSSyro-Hungarian Archaeological Mission- HONGRIEType de contribution : posterWhile the highly developed bathing tradition and infrastructure of Late Antiquity had a smooth transmission into the medieval Near East, the fall of the Western Roman Empire resulted in a steep decline of the bathing culture in Europe. Europeans settling in the Syro-Palestinian region as a consequence of the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries quickly adopted to this segment of the superior local lifestyle and were depicted by a contemporary Latin source as people „more used to baths than battles". Franks not only took over but also constructed a number of baths of which only few examples are known. In this respect the identification of two baths attributable to the Crusaders by the the Syro-Hungarian Archaeological Mission (SHAM) during its excavations in Qal'at al-Marqab in 2007 gains a special importance.