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Archaeologists excavating Ostia Antica, the ancient port city of Rome, have unearthed what is now considered the oldest Jewish ritual bath (mikvah) outside the Middle East. Dating back over 1,500 ...

The find emerged from the first excavation campaign in decades directly carried out under the auspices of Ostia Antica archaeologists. The mikvah was located inside a “large and rich domus ...

Archaeologists began excavating a central section of Ostia Antica, an archaeological park roughly 15 miles from downtown Rome, as part of ongoing research at the site, park officials said in a ...

Newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new enigmas about the city's potential melting pot of Roman Empire communities ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical region of Israel and the surrounding area.

Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated ... Ancient mikveh dating back to Roman times discovered in Ostia Antica, Italy. (photo credit: The Italian Ministry of Culture ...

In the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica, a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath ... Credit: Ministero della Cultura Among the objects recovered during the excavation are oil lamps decorated with the image ...

Ostia Antica is often compared to Pompeii and only ... War II and then picked up sporadically until 2022. The current excavation is part of a research project launched in 2022 by the ...

Credit: Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica Archaeologists working at Ostia ... In the summer of 2024, archaeologists excavating in the heart of the ancient city found a narrow, rectangular ...