Editing Bikini (section)

=== In antiquity ===
{{stack|[[File:Pompeii bikini girls.jpg|thumb|The ancient Roman [[Villa Romana del Casale]] (286–305&nbsp;CE) in [[Sicily]] has one of the earliest known bikini-type images.]]}}
According to archaeologist [[James Mellaart]], a mural from the [[Chalcolithic]] era (around 5600&nbsp;BCE) in [[Çatalhöyük]], [[Anatolia]] depicts a mother goddess astride two leopards wearing a costume somewhat like a bikini.<ref name=Agrawala /><ref>{{cite book |first1=Lucy |last1=Goodison |author1-link=Lucy Goodison |first2=Christine E. |last2=Morris |author2-link=Christine E. Morris |title=Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence |page=46 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |date=1998 |isbn=978-0-299-16320-4 }}</ref> The two-piece swimsuit can be traced back to the [[Greco-Roman world]], where bikini-like garments worn by women athletes are depicted on [[urns]] and paintings dating back to 1400&nbsp;BCE.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Peter J. |last1=James |first2=I. J. |last2=Thorpe |first3=Nick |last3=Thorpe |title=Ancient Inventions |page=[https://archive.org/details/ancientinvention00jame/page/279 279] |publisher=Ballantine Books |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-345-40102-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/ancientinvention00jame/page/279}}</ref>

In ''Coronation of the Winner'', a [[mosaic]] in the floor of a [[Roman villa]] in [[Sicily]] that dates from the [[Diocletianic Persecution|Diocletian period]] (286–305&nbsp;CE), young women participate in weightlifting, discus throwing, and running ball games dressed in bikini-like garments (technically bandeaukinis in modern lexicon).<ref name=BBCW /><ref name=VilCas>{{cite web |url=http://www.valdinoto.com/english/villa_romana_del_casale.htm |title=Villa Romana del Casale|publisher=Val di Noto|access-date=2013-08-29}}</ref> The mosaic, found in the [[Sicily|Sicilian]] [[Villa Romana del Casale]], features ten maidens who have been anachronistically dubbed the "[[Villa Romana del Casale#Athletic competition|Bikini Girls]]".<ref name="Guttmann 1991 38">{{cite book |first=Allen |last=Guttmann |title=Women's Sports: A History |url=https://archive.org/details/womenssports00alle |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/womenssports00alle/page/38 38] |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1991 |isbn= 978-0-231-06957-1}}</ref><ref name="Villa Romana del Casale">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/villaromanadelcasale.html |title=Villa Romana del Casale |publisher=World Heritage Sites |access-date=2015-03-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223110444/http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/villaromanadelcasale.html |archive-date=2008-12-23 }}</ref>

Other [[Roman Empire|Roman]] archaeological finds depict the goddess [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] in a similar garment. In [[Pompeii]], depictions of Venus wearing a bikini were discovered in the Casa della Venere,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stoa.org/gallery/allison|title=Pompeian Households: Image Gallery|publisher=The Stoa Consortium, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University|access-date=2015-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205075357/http://www.stoa.org/gallery/allison|archive-date=2016-02-05 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stoa.org/gallery/albums.php|title=Stoa Image Gallery|publisher=The Stoa Consortium, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University|access-date=2015-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205200/http://www.stoa.org/gallery/albums.php|archive-date=2015-10-15|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Penelope M. |last=Allison |url=http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/rooms?houseid=13|title=Pompeian Households: Information concerning the rooms in Casa della Venere in Bikini|access-date=2015-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318124125/http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/rooms?houseid=13|archive-date=2015-03-18|url-status=dead}}</ref> in the ''[[tablinum]]'' of the [[House of Julia Felix]],<ref>{{cite book |first1= Mary |last1= Beard |first2= John |last2= Henderson |title= Classical Art |page=116 |url=https://archive.org/details/classicalartfrom00bear/page/116 |publisher= Oxford University Press |year= 2001 |isbn= 978-0-19-284237-4 }}</ref> and in an [[Atrium (architecture)|atrium]] garden of [[House of Loreius Tiburtinus|Via Dell'Abbondanza]].<ref>{{cite book |first1= Elisabeth B. |last1= MacDougall |first2=Wilhelmina Mary |last2= Feemster |title= Ancient Roman Gardens |page=38 |publisher= Dumbarton Oaks |year= 1979 |isbn=978-0-88402-100-1}}</ref>