You Won’t Believe These 12 Amazing Facts About the Mayans

#11 Sweat Baths Were Sacred
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While sweat baths and saunas are fairly popular nowadays, they were sacred back in the Mayan timesĀ and were used and loved extensively. The Mayans believed that people could remove impurities in their body by sitting in these sweat baths and sweating those impurities right out of their bodies quickly.