There’s also a (newish) crop of very handsome towels that can gussy up an otherwise drab bathroom. So if aesthetics are important to you, there are several striking options to choose from.

“It's probably the biggest bath complex in a Pompeiian private home,” Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of Pompeii archaeological park, told the BBC. The bathhouse is divided into three ...

They would then relax in the "calidarium", a room with a hot bath, followed by the "tepidarium" or warm room, and finally take a plunge in a pool of cold water in the "frigidarium". The cold room ...

Covered windows, peeling wallpaper: For the first time outside of Amsterdam, an exhibition reconstructs Anne’s hiding place during the devastation of the Holocaust. By Laurel Graeber It’s ...