Pompeii is well known as an iconic Roman city. But for much of its early history, it wasn’t Roman at all. It belonged to the Samnites, a people who built public baths by at least 130 BC. These early ...

As I sat there, cloaked in candlelight and the dizzying aroma of essential oils, soaking my worries away in a cavern-like ...

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Pompeii’s famous public baths weren’t always the polished, near-sterile wellness centers we tend to imagine. A new scientific study has found strong chemical signs that some of the city’s earliest ...

Archaeologists believe that they may finally have found the long-lost baths that once belonged to the renowned Roman statesman and writer Cicero. The recently spotted thermal complex is part of the ...

It is remarkable what, with enough ingenuity, can be gleaned from the most unpromising of materials – such as Roman limescale. That’s what a team based in Germany has been studying, and they have used ...