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Ancient Roman heated floors (Hypocaust)

 
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It's neat seeing thermal mass and surface heating used in ancient times!

This video shows a reconstruction of a Roman hypocaust. I found it interesting that they got a much better draft when they decreased the entrance to the fire--it reminded me a lot of the small rocket mass heater doors and fireboxes:



And, this video shows the foundations of an actual ancient Roman hypocaust:

 
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