Old Jewish 'Purification' Bath Found While Digging a Roman City; 'Oldest Discovery of Its Kind in the World' Ancient religious structures are valuable findings for any culture. The structures are ...

Discovered outside Rome, the bath, which is thought to ... In 1961, one of the oldest known synagogues in the Roman world was discovered during the construction of a highway to the new Fiumicino ...

when the Ostian synagogue, the oldest in Western Mediterranean (it was built in the late 2nd–early 3rd century) and the only one preserved in Rome, ceased to exist following the definitive ...

The ritual bath is in part of what was the Ostia Synagogue, built at the end of ... rooted the Jewish presence was” in the heart of ancient Rome. Believed to have started off as a naval base ...