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

View of the exterior of the ritual bath. Credit: Ministero della Cultura The confirmation of a deep-rooted Jewish community in this port city adds to other archaeological evidence revealing the ...

Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ritual bath outside of the Middle East, along with an oil lamp decorated with a menorah dated ...

The hole full of bones—the largest ritual deposit discovered of its kind dating to the Roman Britain period—gives archaeologists hints about the ways that conquered British did—and didn’t ...

Photo from Italy’s Ministry of Culture Alessandro D’Alessio, the director of the Ostia Antica Archaeological Park, described ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Archaeologists excavating Ostia Antica, the ancient port city of Rome, have unearthed what is now considered the oldest ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A warrant released Friday morning reveals new details about the “fraternity ritual” that is believed to have led to the death of Southern University student Caleb Wilson.

In the ancient Roman world, which I study, biological sex and gender expression did not always line up as neatly as the president is demanding to see in today’s government. In antiquity ...

On Mar 4, Era FM came under fire for a video posted on its Instagram page, in which radio hosts Nabil Ahmad, Azad Jasmin and Radin Amir Affendy were seen mimicking the kavadi ritual performed by ...

The nailed head ritual may have been as a way to intimidate their enemies and celebrate their ancestors. The findings published in the April 2025 issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science ...