I didn’t appreciate what I was seeing as I walked the stone streets of Ostia, ancient Rome’s port city, gazing at what used to be taverns, inns, baths, bakeries, temples, markets, warehouses, and ...

A rare mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, was found at Ostia Antica, near Rome, offering concrete evidence of a Jewish presence in ...

Dayne Traynor at the 2024 Research Open House. Courtesy of Pratt Communications and Marketing. Ostia Antica was the harbor city of Rome during Antiquity. Located at the mouth of the Tiber River, it ...

Discovered outside Rome, the bath, which is thought to be a mikvah, could be more than 1,600 years old. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Ostia Antica When Luigi Maria Caliò, a classical ...