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An excavation in the Moharam Bek district of Alexandria, Egypt, has uncovered the remains of a rare circular public bath from the Ptolemaic era and a Roman-era villa with intricate mosaic floors. These findings shed new light on the urban development of Alexandria from the Ptolemaic period through the Roman era and into the Byzantine period, and redraw the map of the city.The Moharam Bek district was the southeastern sector of the ancient city, an area that has not been extensively excavated before now. The discoveries confirm that the area was still inside the walls of the ancient city into the Byzantine era before later changes in the citys urban fabric marginalized the neighborhood.The circular bath takes the classical tholos form, characterized by a ring of columns that supported a domed or conical roof. In ancient Greece, these structures were intended for a variety of functions, both secular and religious, but public baths are exceedingly rare.The villa had a small plunge pool fed by an advanced water management system. A variety of mosaic techniques were found decorating the floors of the bath and the villa, including fine examples of surviving sections of opus tessellatum and opus sectile, emphasizing the diversity of artistic workshops in Ptolemaic and Roman Alexandria.Over the months of excavation, the team recovered important moveable artifacts as well as the architectural remains. The most notable finds were marble statues of deities including Bacchus and Asclepius, god of health, headless statue bodies with finely sculpted draping and statue heads with surviving stone eye inlays and polychrome point. One of the decapitated heads matches one of the bodies.The artifacts are currently undergoing preliminary restoration before they are transferred to specialized laboratories. When conservation is complete, a selection of the most important pieces will go on display at the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria.

Among the horrors of Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Mauthausen-Gusen, the story of Ravensbrck often gets overlooked.Perhaps its because it was one of the only camps exclusively for female prisoners perhaps a strange concession to propriety in the middle of a genocide that killed men, women, and children indiscriminately and people mistakenly assume that a womens camp was a kinder, gentler place.Or perhaps its because the camp was almost immediately sealed off in East Germany after its liberation by Soviet forces, meaning it would be years before the Western world glimpsed its facilities.Rescued women from Ravensbrck.It doesnt help that it wasnt photographed upon liberation. Unlike Bergen-Belsen or Dachau or Buchenwald, its horrors werent recorded by the professional photographers who accompanied Allied troops in the wars final days. But the story of Ravensbrck concentration camp is well worth remembering.The following images of Ravensbrck womens concentration camp present a stark image of the brutality of the Nazi regime but, more than that, they are a testament to the strength of these women, who would make jewelry, write comic operettas about camp life, and organize secret education programs to remind themselves of their humanity.Incredibly, in some photos, the female inmates even muster the energy and the courage to smile.Click here to view slideshowWho Was Sent To Ravensbrck?World War II saw 130,000 female prisoners pass through the gates of Ravensbrck most of whom never walked back out.What's surprising is that a relatively small number of those women were Jewish. Surviving records suggest that during the camp's operating years (May of 1939 through April of 1945), only 26,000 of the inmates were Jewish.So who were the camp's other female prisoners?Some had resisted the Nazi regime; they were spies and rebels. Others were scholars and academics who had openly supported socialism or communism or put forward other opinions Hitler's government considered dangerous.The Romani, like the Jews of Europe, were never safe where Nazis walked, and neither were prostitutes or Jehovah's Witnesses.Other women simply didn't meet German expectations of femininity this group included lesbians, the Aryan wives of Jews, the disabled, and the mentally ill. They, along with the prostitutes, were made to wear a black triangle badge that marked them as "asocial." Criminals, by contrast, wore green triangles, and the political prisoners red.Jewish inmates, already familiar with the star badge that had singled them out prior to incarceration, were now assigned yellow triangles.The more boxes you checked, the more badges you got, and the worse your fate was likely to be.There were no exceptions, and there was no mercy. Whether a woman was pregnant or clutching toddlers didn't matter to the Gestapo; the children would follow their mothers into the camp. Almost none survived.When all was said and done, the women of Ravensbrck had almost nothing in common. They came from all over Europe, wherever German troops roamed, and spoke different languages: Russian, French, Polish, Dutch. They had different socioeconomic backgrounds, different levels of education, and different religious views.But they did share one thing: the Nazi party considered every single one of them "deviant." They were not part of Germany's glorious future, and everything about camp life was designed to leave them in no doubt about where they stood.What Was Life Like At Ravensbrck?When Ravensbrck was built on the orders of Heinrich Himmler in 1938, it was almost picturesque.Conditions were good, and some prisoners, coming from the poverty of the ghettos, even expressed wonder at the manicured lawns, peacock-filled birdhouses, and flowerbeds lining the great square.But behind the pretty faade was a dark secret one Himmler was fully aware of. The camp had been built far, far too small.Its maximum capacity was 6,000. Ravensbrck blew past that cap in just eight months, and some estimate that the camp once held as many as 50,000 prisoners at one time.Barracks meant to accommodate 250 women had to fit as many as 2,000; even sharing beds wasn't enough to keep many off the floor, and blankets were scarce. Five hundred women shared three doorless latrines.The results of overcrowding were disease and famine, both exacerbated by grueling manual labor. The women woke before 4:00 a.m. to build roads, pulling paving rollers like oxen before the plow. When inside, they spent long shifts bent over the electrical components of rockets, and in drafty, poorly lit halls, they sewed uniforms for prisoners and coats for soldiers.They were only spared work on Sundays, when they were permitted to socialize.This video offers a detailed look at the daily life of the women of Ravensbrck.Medical Experimentation And The Women Who Ran The Concentration CampOne of the most confusing things about Ravensbrck is why it existed at all. Other camps housed both female and male prisoners. So why bother to create an all-women camp?Some have suggested that Ravensbrck was created in part as a training ground for female prison guards, known as Aufseherinnen.Women could not belong to the SS, but they could hold auxiliary roles and the Ravensbrck facility trained thousands of women for guard duty in concentration camps across Germany.They were no better than their male counterparts. Some said they were worse, because success as a guard offered them a rare opportunity for status and recognition in a deeply patriarchal regime and they fought hard for it. Every step they took forward came at the expense of the inmates they oversaw.They punished disobedient prisoners without mercy, locking them in solitary confinement, whipping them, and occasionally setting the camp's dogs on them.But that wasn't the worst that inmates faced. Eighty-six prisoners, most of them Polish, became known as the Ravensbrck "rabbits" when camp doctors selected them for medical experimentation.The medical team was interested in the efficacy of antibacterial drugs known as sulfonamides in treating infections on the battlefield, especially gangrene. To that end, they infected patients, cutting deep into muscle and bone to deposit deadly bacteria on splinters of wood and glass.But the doctors didn't stop there. They were also interested in the possibility of bone transplants and nerve regeneration. They conducted amputations and forced transplants, killing many of their "rabbits" in the process. Those who survived did so with permanent damage.The doctors also practiced sterilization techniques, focusing on Romani women who agreed to the operation on the condition that they would be released from Ravensbrck. The doctors performed the surgeries, and the women remained behind bars.The Final Days Of World War 2 And The Liberation Of RavensbrckFor much of the war, the Ravensbrck facility did not have a gas chamber. It had outsourced its mass executions to other camps, like nearby Auschwitz.That changed in 1944 when Auschwitz announced it had reached maximum capacity and closed its gates to new arrivals. So Ravensbrck constructed its own gas chamber, a hastily built facility that was used immediately to put to death 5,000 to 6,000 of the camp's prisoners.In the end, Ravensbrck killed between 30,000 and 50,000 women. They met their ends at the hands of brutal overseers and experimenting doctors, froze and starved to death on cold earth floors, and fell victim to the diseases that plagued the overcrowded barracks.When the Soviets liberated the camp, they found 3,500 prisoners clinging to life. The rest had been sent on a death march. In total, just 15,000 of the 130,000 prisoners who came to Ravensbrck lived to see its liberation.The women who survived told stories of their fallen comrades. They remembered little forms of resistance and small moments of joy: they sabotaged rocket pieces or sewed soldiers' uniforms to fall apart, held secret language and history classes, and swapped stories and recipes most knew they would never make again.They modified records and kept their friends' secrets and even ran an underground newspaper to spread word of new arrivals, new dangers, or small causes for new hope.Their ashes now fill Lake Schwedt, on whose shores the women of Ravensbrck made their last stand.For more on the Holocaust, see our poignant gallery of Holocaust photos and the story of Stanislawa Leszczyska, the woman who delivered 3,000 babies at Auschwitz. Then, read about the fearsome concentration camp guard known as Ilse Koch.The post 24 Photos Of Life In Ravensbrck, The Nazis Only All-Female Concentration Camp appeared first on All That's Interesting.