Hygienic conditions were poor in the city's older bathing facilities, a new study reveals. The analysis sheds light on ...
Research uncovers how Pompeii’s early baths were unhygienic and how Roman water systems improved cleanliness but added new health risks.
Pompeii is well known as an iconic Roman city. But for much of its early history, it wasn’t Roman at all. It belonged to the ...
A 2026 PNAS study reveals Pompeii's pre-Roman Republican Baths were heavily contaminated with human waste and rarely ...
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Jewelled eels, beards of gold and unfathomable cruelty: 5 of ancient Rome’s most eccentric leaders
Depictions of the eccentricities of Roman leaders were (and remain) interesting. But such leaders were often also dangerous, ...
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Pompeii’s public baths were unhygienic until the Romans took over
Before the Romans captured Pompeii, the famous town was run by the Samnite people – and a dip in their public baths might ...
Archaeologists uncovered the 2,000-year-old Flaccus tomb at Heerlen's Raadhuisplein during a town-square excavation.
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