A former public swimming baths in West Yorkshire has been put on sale, with a guide price of £200,000. The closed Batley ...

Hygienic conditions were poor in the city's older bathing facilities, a new study reveals. The analysis sheds light on ...

Before the Romans captured Pompeii, the famous town was run by the Samnite people – and a dip in their public baths might have been an unpleasant experience ...

While the beach and swimming culture might feel like an intrinsic part of “Australianness”, this hasn’t always been the case.

A study of limescale buildup in an early bathing facility at Pompeii has revealed that the water was replaced only once per ...

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 ...

Right after their famous roads and imposing gladiatorial arenas, the ancient Romans are perhaps best known for their public baths and enduring aqueducts. New research sheds light on these structures ...

Research uncovers how Pompeii’s early baths were unhygienic and how Roman water systems improved cleanliness but added new health risks.

T he ancient Romans took bathing seriously—it was a crucial facet of their daily lives, and people from a range of social rungs enjoyed dips in public baths. Romans seem to have taken sanitation ...

Pompeii’s famous public baths weren’t always the polished, near-sterile wellness centers we tend to imagine. A new scientific study has found strong chemical signs that some of the city’s earliest ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, spewing molten rock, ...