Dec 26 2011
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Ostia Antica is a long-abandoned city and continuing archaeological dig at what was once the seaport of imperial Rome, about 20 miles down the Tiber River from the Roman Forum. Before it was buried under silt, dust and its own collapsing buildings, it was a prosperous hard-working town, the kind where the mule drivers’ union would have its own bathhouse (as it apparently did) with steam rooms, a pool and a gym.
