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 ...

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A farmer in Salkaya, Turkey, unearthed patterned stones in 2023, leading to the discovery of a 1,700-year-old Roman bathhouse ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Spain unearthed well-preserved Roman public baths in the town of Mérida, according to city officials. Several parts of the ancient structure were discovered during the excavations, ...

The new spa at Orient Express La Minerva in Rome blends Roman thermae traditions with Ottoman hammam rituals, offering ...

Just outside Elche, calm fields and gentle hills sit over an unexpected secret. La Alcudia conceals its history so thoroughly that its depth becomes visible only when the soil is opened for all to see ...

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 ...