Soaking in a hot bath is a luxurious activity that people have enjoyed for thousands of years including the Romans as evidenced by a recent discovery. In the ancient Roman world, where plagues were ...

From river rinses to oil-and-strigil scrapes, ancient grooming mixed health, ritual, and social life into daily survival. in ...

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 ...

Two recently opened stops by the Colosseum double as museums, showcasing the ancient artifacts and ruins unearthed during ...

Evidence indicates that the Roman public baths collapsed, according to experts. Mérida Monumental City Consortium Archaeologists in Spain unearthed well-preserved Roman public baths in the town of ...

Roman baths in an excellent state of preservation were recently discovered in Spain, officials said. Photo from the Consortium of the Monumental City of Mérida Soaking in a hot bath is a luxurious ...