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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 ...

Newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new enigmas about the ...

Perhaps the water is better these days: I’ve never dared go back." Ostia is a large neighbourhood near the ancient port of Rome, which is now a major archaeological site known as Ostia Antica.

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

Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the lulav (palm branch and symbol of the harvest festival).

In the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica, a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath ... The mikveh is located in a semi-subterranean structure with access to a spring-fed water well, an essential feature for ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest mikveh bath outside of Israel in an ancient port city near Rome, ...

Credit: Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica Archaeologists working at Ostia ... there was a hole through which a pipe carried water to fill up the mikvah. These mikva'ot are used in the Jewish ...

The "extraordinary" Jewish ritual bath was found during archaeological excavations in the ruins of the ancient Roman port city of Ostia, near to Rome. - Remo Casilli/Reuters ...

Ostia Antica is often compared to Pompeii and only ... the mikveh would have been supplied with rain or spring water and would have been deep enough to allow for the complete immersion of an ...