Pompeii is well known as an iconic Roman city. But for much of its early history, it wasn’t Roman at all. It belonged to the ...
New secrets have been revealed about bathing culture in ancient Pompeii. Researchers have found mineral deposits under lava ...
T he ancient Romans took bathing seriously—it was a crucial facet of their daily lives, and people from a range of social ...
Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago. Today, the bare shell of what was one of Rome’s ...