An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of all classes the chance to mingle, gossip and relax. They were viewed as fundamental to Roman civilization and an obvious ...

In the Byzantine period, and especially in the fifth–seventh centuries CE, a unique rural Jewish settlement developed at Susya, in Daroma (southern Hebron Hills). This uniqueness is expressed in ...

(CNN) — The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical region of Israel and the surrounding area. The “mikveh,” used by ...

The discovery of what could be the oldest mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, ever found outside the land of Israel, raises the possibility that some 1,700 years ago, a coastal city near Rome was a center ...

JERUSALEM — What did an Israeli family find when they decided to renovate their Jerusalem home? A 2,000-year-old ritual bath known as a mikveh. The discovery wasn't the result of careful digging and ...

Archaeologists excavating Ostia Antica, the ancient port city of Rome, have unearthed what is now considered the oldest Jewish ritual bath (mikvah) outside the Middle East. Dating back over 1,500 ...

File under “W+G trivia”: The first Roman and Greek bathhouses—where sacred ritual baths became a thing—were so large, they included lecture halls and art galleries. That might make your 50-square-foot ...

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