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 ...

What – to dip briefly into the world of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian – did the Romans ever do for us? Apart, of course, from ...

During the Roman Empire, the bath institutionalized leisure. Typically found near the forum, the center of the town, the bath was a publicly-funded place for all citizens regardless of socioeconomic ...

From a mosaic of flip-flops in Sicily to Cicero’s possible sauna, new discoveries prove that bathing has always been about more than getting clean. Ancient Roman flip-flop mosaic from the Villa Romana ...

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Researchers say it’s “one of the most monumental Roman bath complexes ever discovered in the Iberian Peninsula.” Eight years after beginning excavations in southeastern Spain, an archaeological crew ...

Archaeologists working to install a lift and restore the ground floor of Split City Museum got more than they bargained for when they unearthed sizeable Roman baths underneath the building’s reception ...

Archaeologists in Spain unearthed well-preserved Roman public baths in the town of Mérida, according to city officials. Several parts of the ancient structure were discovered during the excavations, ...

For 285 years, Roman experts and archeologists have been perplexed over metal alloy dodecahedron-shaped objects that have no mention in Roman literature or art. In the summer of 2023, amateur ...