Bathhouse announced its plans on Monday for a three-story building in the North Loop at 760 N. Third St., featuring saunas, hot and cold pools, steam rooms and treatment spaces for services, including ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...

New York and Chicago have unique styles of cheesecake that developed decades apart. New York–style cheesecake’s typical pale ...

Sound baths are meditative experiences where participants lie down and are immersed in sound waves from instruments like ...

Tamara Thomsen, Maritime Archaeologist for the State Historic Preservation Office at the Wisconsin Historical Society, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the ancient canoes found in Lake Mendota in Wisconsin.

The hammam is a traditional steam bath. It was historically inspired by Roman bathhouses and later by Islamic purification practices. In Morocco, the hammam has long been a communal space, a place ...

Getting out of the bath or shower only to step on a grimy, flattened bath mat is an immensely unpleasant experience, one I closely associate with living in a dorm with roommates in my early 20s. A ...