Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological ...

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Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the lulav (palm branch and symbol of the harvest festival).

Newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new enigmas about the ...

The mikvah was located inside a “large and ... workers came across a first-century inscription attesting to the presence of Jews there. It is believed to be the oldest inscription referring ...

At the mikvah’s public unveiling earlier this ... known synagogues in Western Europe and a tombstone dating to the first century C.E., one of the oldest known Jewish inscriptions ever found ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest mikveh bath outside of Israel in an ancient port city near Rome, ...

Another contender for the oldest mikvah outside the Middle East is one at an ancient temple on Russia's Taman Peninsula. However, while some argue that this temple dates to the late first century ...