Ancient Roman flip-flop mosaic from the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, Italy (c. 4th century CE) (photo courtesy Isabella Baldini) What could be better in antiquity — and today — than relaxing at ...

According to ArkeoNews, the structure was built during a flourishing period of Roman expansion when thermal baths served not merely as places for hygiene, but as centers of healing and social ...

Archaeologists and students unearthed the 1,500-year-old ruins of huge semicircular room at a Roman bath complex in Aquileia, photos show. Photo from the University of Udine Digging into the stony ...

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An excavation in Sicily uncovered a mosaic-filled Roman bath. The thermal complex is one of the largest ever found on the Italian island, and could be one of the most decorated. The discovery was also ...

Archaeologists working to install a lift and restore the ground floor of Split City Museum got more than they bargained for when they unearthed sizeable Roman baths underneath the building’s reception ...

Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago. Today, the bare shell of what was one of Rome’s ...

As the Roman Empire expanded, it brought bath complexes and new grooming tools with it—from nail care to "ear scoops." Found at the site of Sidi Ghrib near Carthage, this mosaic—titled The Woman of ...

Iconic bathhouses in cities from Rome and Paris to Budapest and Istanbul go back centuries, if not millennia. So does taking the waters in the British city of Bath, and Germany’s Baden Baden, or Bad ...