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The Palace Bath-house is situated on the lowest terrace of the complex. It was discovered in 1939. The archaeological excavations exposed a big bath-house consisting of 26 rooms, covered up with earth above which there was a garden. Traveller I.Lerkh who visited the palace in 1733, wrote about the bath-house, “It is well decorated both from outside and inside.” The water from the ovdan (reservoir) at the walls ran into the boiler-room of the bath-house – “gyulkhana” and further was distributed through ceramic pipes for which special channels were built. The entrance into the ovdan under the earth had a lancet aperture leading to the staircase cut in rocky tracts that ended in the depth of 70 steps at the big reservoir. The water ran there from the subterranean galleries - kahrises. During the construction work near the western fortress wall in the depth of 10 metres there was found an ancient water pipe running from the mountains towards the ovdan and the Shirvanshahs’ Palace. The palace and bath-house must have been provided with the water from this water-pipe.