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Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological site of an ancient Roman city.  Read More ...

While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts, Brøns noticed a handful of references to sweet-smelling statues. She was intrigued, so she decided to go looking for even more mentions of scented sculptures.

Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...

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The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome ... It was the first Roman colony and an important urban center of antiquity, 16 miles from Rome. “This is an absolutely ...

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View of the exterior of the ritual bath. Credit: Ministero della Cultura The confirmation of a deep-rooted Jewish community in this port city adds to other archaeological evidence revealing the ...

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 ...