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 ...

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A hidden treasure from ancient Rome has emerged from the depths of Lake ... revealing parts of the bed that have been hidden beneath the water’s surface for hundreds of years — including ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...