An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of all classes the chance to mingle, gossip and relax. They were viewed as fundamental to Roman civilization and an obvious ...

During the Roman Empire, the bath institutionalized leisure. Typically found near the forum, the center of the town, the bath was a publicly-funded place for all citizens regardless of socioeconomic ...

Italian archaeologists recently made a surprising religious discovery in an unusual location: an Ancient Roman bath complex. The Appian Way Regional Park, an urban park in Rome, announced the ...

NEW YORK -- At AIRE Ancient Baths you can revive and rejuvenate your mind, body, and soul, right in the heart of New York City. Inspired by the tradition of baths from ancient Roman, Greek and Ottoman ...

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Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...