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Romans regularly soaked in filthy, lead-contaminated bath water, Pompeii study finds

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

Mosaic bearing Pope Leo XIV’s portrait readied for St. Paul Outside the Walls

Today, Pope Leo XIV was presented with the round mosaic featuring his official papal portrait — the 267th papal portrait to ...
America Magazine

Vatican completes official mosaic portrait of Pope Leo XIV for papal basilica

(OSV News) — The Vatican has completed the official mosaic portrait of Pope Leo XIV, continuing a centuries-old tradition ...
Archaeology

Lixus, Morocco

According to the first-century A.D. Roman writer Pliny the Elder, the ancient city of Lixus in what is now northern Morocco was the site of the Garden of the Hesperides, where the semidivine hero ...