The ancient Aegyssus is located in Parcul Monumentului and the adjacent areas, on the highest promontory of the Danube, a strategic location for guarding terrestrial and waterways. Recorded by Ovid as uetus urbs (ancient city), in the context of early 1st century AD conflicts with the Dacians from the north of the Danube, Aegyssus played a strategic role on the Lower Moesia and later province Scythia limes (fortified border). The late Hellenistic amphora deposit (1st century BC-1st Century AD) discovered on the site suggests that Aegyssus was an important emporion in the commerce pathways of the period.
At the beginning of the 2nd century AD. the city was included in the Roman-Danubian defending system. In the second half of the 3rd century AD, the cohors 'Il Flavia Brittonum' was garrisoned in the city, and in the next century vexillatio Aegyssensis of Legio I Jovia. During the 4th-5th centuries, the city still preserved its military statute (headquarter of cuneus equitum armigerorum, praefectus ripae legionis primae Joviae cohortium quinque pedaturae inferioris) and during the period of Emperor Justinianus it was rebuilt, under the circumstances of the monumental reconstruction effort of the Danubian limes. Aegyssus is then mentioned in Notitia Episcopatum on the list of the bishoprics of Dobrudja. The urban life comes to its end at Aegyssus in the first decades of the 7th century - as it happened actually in the whole province Scythia -, as a consequence of the Avars-Slavs' attacks and of the downfall of Danubian limes. Towards the end of the 10th century, the Byzantine Empire took over the control of the Mouth of the Danube and of Aegyssus. The end of the Middle-Byzantine settlement occurs in the context of the Pechenegs and other Turkish tribes' attacks in the middle of 11th century, but a number of archaeological material suggests resumption, although as modest habitation, during the following centuries.
The baths (thermae) is representative for the site. It was built at the end of the 1st century AD and will be used until the beginning of the 5th century. It was destroyed in the context of the Hunnic invasions that affect the city. There were identified several construction phases, in the third phase a large room on the north side, probably a palestra, had been added. 

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