Ostia Antica

Last Thursday, my ancient art history class went to Ostia Antica for the day.  Ostia is the ancient port town of Rome and now the ruins are a tourist attraction.  What was really interesting is that the path of the Tiber river used to be different, so Ostia used to be connected to the river.  The Tiber has since changed its course so the ruins are several miles away from it.  It reminded me of a small-scale Pompeii but not preserved as well.
Near the entrance we got to see the necropolis, where the people were buried.  The tombs were all labeled with descriptions of the people buried there.  The rich people had nice tombs and the poor people just had plaques for themselves.  After that we walked around to the site of the public bath houses in Ostia as well as a "fire station" for the time period.  A lot of mosaics on the ground were still preserved and they all had sea themes such as fish, sea creatures, and people fishing.
Afterwards we went to another bath house where we got to go underground and walk around the tunnels where the ancient plumbing system used to be.  It was also in here that the slaves and poor people had to heat water when everyone else was taking a bath.