Ancient water rituals, particularly salt baths, offer a potent blend of holistic health and astrological benefits. This practice, incorporating sun-charged water and specific ingredients like rock ...

As I sat there, cloaked in candlelight and the dizzying aroma of essential oils, soaking my worries away in a cavern-like ...

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Would you take a bath in 300 litres of wine for wellbeing? Dayna Clarke travels to Seville to try just that. I’ve always been a white wine drinker. Crisp, dry, preferably cold. Red has its place, but ...

Holburne museum places renowned photographer’s pictures of ancient Roman statutes alongside his images of war and conflict ...

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 ...

If you’ve spent even a little time on social media in recent years, you’ve no doubt come across a swathe of “wellness” ...

The 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 ...

A new study has investigated the bathwater in the legendary and technologically advanced city ...

The public baths of Pompeii were social hubs of the city—places to gossip, relax, and wash. But for much of their early history, you might have been cleaner before you stepped in. New research ...