Rick Steves: Ruins at the Roman port of Ostia Antica rival Pompeii’s. It’s just a 45-minute train ride from downtown Rome, and yet most tourists don’t make the trip.

On the outskirts of Rome, Italy, sit the ruins of Ostia Antica. The ancient port city isn’t as well-known as the nearby Colosseum or Roman Forum, but — as archaeologists recently learned ...

According to legend, Ancus Marcius, one of the kings of Rome (before the Republic, which was, in turn, before the Empire) founded Ostia Antica in 620 BCE, however the earliest ruins are from the ...

by Rick Steves, January 26, 2023. Sitting on the top row of the ancient arena, I scan the ruins of Ostia, letting my imagination take me back 2,000 years to the days when this was ancient Rome's ...

Ostia Antica, If you haven’t got enough of Roman ruins yet then you shouldn’t miss the local version of Pompei, located just 30 km east of Rome. It’s accessible quite easily, a cheap ...

A photo shows ruins at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman city that lies to the southwest of Rome. Scientists have discovered new engravings that detail the movements of Emperor Hadrian SethSampaio/Getty ...

The "extraordinary" Jewish ritual bath was found during archaeological excavations in the ruins of the ancient Roman port city of Ostia, near to Rome. Remo Casilli/Reuters Sign up for CNN’s ...

The crowds in Rome seem to get bigger every year, so I recommend checking out Ostia Antica instead. The archaeological park is about 30 minutes away, and it houses relics from an ancient Roman city.

These astonishing ruins, today part of the archaeological park “Old Ostia,” reveal the presence of a Jewish community in a Roman settlement originally located at the mouth of the river Tiber ...

In the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica, a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, has been identified during excavations carried out in June and August 2024.The discovery of this mikveh is of singular ...

A trove of perfectly preserved ceramics, burnt animal bones and a wooden chalice have been pulled up from a well in Ostia Antica, shedding new light on religious life at the heart of Ancient Rome.

Wandering around the ruins today, you can see the remains of the docks, warehouses, apartment flats, mansions, shopping arcades, and baths — all giving a peek at Roman lifestyles. Ostia, at the ...