On March 10, Italian officials announced the discovery, which was found at the archaeological site of Ostia Antica last summer. In a statement translated from Italian to English, the Ostia Antica ...

Caliò’s team found the roughly 1,600-year-old mikvah in a “large ... from Ostia Antica Archaeological Park. Some archaeologists, however, caution against calling the bathing site a mikvah ...

Archaeologists began excavating a central section of Ostia Antica, an archaeological park roughly 15 miles from downtown Rome, as part of ongoing research at the site, park officials said in a ...

A view into the mikvah found at Ostia Antica. | Credit: Archaeological Park of Ostia ... This was particularly true in large and cosmopolitan cities such as Ostia, a port city just 19 miles ...