Students from the University of Catania excavate the mikvah site. Ostia Antica Archaeological Park “We thought we’d find some warehouses or a fluvial port,” he tells the New York Times ...

In one corner of the structure, there was a hole through which a pipe carried water to fill up the mikvah. These mikva'ot are used in the Jewish tradition to purify people and objects. During ...

The discovery of the ritual bath, known as a mikvah, "confirms the extent of the continuous presence, role and importance of the Jewish community in Ostia throughout the Imperial age [of Rome ...