 Much of the marble walling of the baths was stripped off, and the baths fell into disuse.In 1770 the Papal States began to excavate parts of the site and built an Italian-style garden nearby, which can still be seen.During the reign of the Emperor Commodus, Aelius Lampridius recorded that the emperor—upon finding his bathwater lukewarm—had an attendant thrown into an oven while visiting Terme Taurine.