Public baths were commonplace in ancient Rome. The Roman Empire was known ... There are several public and private baths in Ostia Antica. The public Baths of Neptune featured an open-air palaestra ...

In fact, it got almost 3 million visitors in 2022. However, you can find a less crowded ancient city much closer to Rome in Ostia Antica. Just around a 30-minute drive from the Eternal City ...

Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city ... chief rabbi of the Jewish Community of Rome, said in the statement. "The history of the Jews of Rome is enriched today ...

Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of secrets, from the Vatican Museums to Ostia Antica. From the 1st-Century BCE ruins of the Imperial Forum to the Trevi Fountain’s ...

Ostia Antica is often compared to Pompeii and only a third of the city, which was used as a marble quarry during the construction of palaces and Catholic churches in the building of Rome ...

Less than 15 miles from Rome, Ostia Antica was once a bustling cosmopolitan seaport at the mouth of the Tiber River, where many Mediterranean cultures mingled. For all its importance in Roman ...

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 ...