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Mikveh ritual bath discovered in Ostia Antica, Italy

Archaeologists in Ostia Antica, the ancient port city near Rome, have made an amazing discovery—a Mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, from the late 4th or early 5th century CE. This is a new discovery about the long-standing Jewish community in Ostia, and it’s the oldest Mikveh outside of Israel...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/mik

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Mikveh ritual bath discovered in Ostia Antica, Italy Archaeologists in Ostia Antica, the ancient port city near Rome, have made an amazing discovery—a Mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, from the late 4th or early 5th century CE. This is a new discovery about the long-standing Jewish community in Ostia, and it’s the oldest Mikveh outside of Israel. The excavation was led by the University of Catania in collaboration with the Ostia Antica Archaeological Park. The team expected to find commercial structures like warehouses or a river port. Instead, they found a large, luxurious Roman domus (house) with black and white mosaics, frescoes, a kitchen, latrines, two ovens, and a small immersion pool now identified as a Mikveh...
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Mar 23, 2025, 06:13 PM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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