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In a statement translated from Italian to English, the Ostia Antica Archaeological Park described ... probably intended to house a pipeline for the supply of water," the statement says.

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.

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Ostia Antica When Luigi Maria Caliò, a classical archaeology professor, first brought students from the University of Catania to excavate an area of Ostia ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...