#mikveh — Public Fediverse posts
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2,000-year-old ritual bath (mikveh) discovered beneath Jerusalem’s Western Wall reveals daily life before the Roman destruction
A well-preserved ritual purification bath, also known as a mikveh, which dates to the final years of the Second Temple period, was uncovered in archaeological excavations beneath the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/mikveh-discovered-beneath-jerusalem-s-western-wall/
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Mikveh ritual bath discovered in Ostia Antica, Italy
Archaeologists in Ostia Antica, the ancient port city near Rome, have made an amazing discovery—a Mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, from the late 4th or early 5th century CE. This is a new discovery about the long-standing Jewish community in Ostia, and it’s the oldest Mikveh outside of Israel...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/mikveh-ritual-bath-discovered-in-ostia-antica/
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#archeologia #scoperte #ostiaantica #ostia #bagnoebraico #mikveh #roma #scopertearcheologiche #archaeologyhttps://storiearcheostorie.com/2025/03/11/a-ostia-riemerge-un-antico-bagno-rituale-ebraico/
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#mikveh (#mikvah, plus some other rare alternatives e.g. mikweh) /mik've (Hebrew), ˈmɪkvə (Jewish English)/ = 1. collection; 2. ritual bath for purification (i.e. collection [of waters]. From #SemiticRoot Q-W-H (generates words related to hope, wait for, collect, vomit)
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Article "#Germany: €900,000 in state and federal grants to restore the 12th century #mikveh in #Worms"
https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2022/11/10/germany-worms-mikveh/