The public baths of Pompeii were social hubs of the city—places to gossip, relax, and wash. But for much of their early ...

It is remarkable what, with enough ingenuity, can be gleaned from the most unpromising of materials – such as Roman limescale ...

Pompeii’s famous public baths weren’t always the polished, near-sterile wellness centers we tend to imagine. A new scientific study has found strong chemical signs that some of the city’s earliest ...

The pre-Roman baths of Pompeii would have been seriously grotty, according to an analysis of mineral deposits.

T he ancient Romans took bathing seriously—it was a crucial facet of their daily lives, and people from a range of social ...

Although dedicating much of the treatise to construction and materials, book VIII is about water: how to capture and store water and the architectural constructions that serve this purpose. Water was ...

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A well-preserved ancient Roman bath complex has emerged from the sands of a beach in southern Spain. The researchers from the University of Cádiz (UCA) found well-preserved Roman baths with walls more ...

According to ArkeoNews, the structure was built during a flourishing period of Roman expansion when thermal baths served not merely as places for hygiene, but as centers of healing and social ...

View of the remarkably well-preserved wall of a Roman-era bath complex—one of many remarkable discoveries recently announced by the University of Cádiz in southeastern Spain Courtesy of the University ...