Pompeii Excavation Reveals Bathhouse Built 2,000 Years Ago

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New Pompeii excavation reveals a large private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago

An excavation in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in A.D. 70, has unearthed a new treasure: a private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago. It is decorated with sumptuous mosaics and equipped with a series of hot, warm and cold rooms in the manner of a spa.Video above: Pompeii excavation unearths large, private bathhouse”We have here perhaps the largest thermal complex in a private house in Pompeii,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. “The members of the ruling class of Pompeii set up enormous spaces in their homes to host banquets.””They had the function of creating consensus, promoting an election campaign, closing deals. It was an opportunity to show the wealth in which they lived and also to have a nice thermal treatment,” he explained.The baths were discovered in the so-called Regio IX, a large central area of the Pompeii park that is still unexplored and where major archaeological excavations are revealing new aspects of Pompeians’ daily lives.Recently, archaeologists working in the same area found a bakery, a laundry shop, two villas and the bones of three people who died during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed both the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.Zuchtriegel said wealthy inhabitants of Pompeii often used to first take a bath and then have a banquet, so the private spa complex allowed them to do that all inside the same house.”There is room for about 30 people who could do the whole route, and that could also be done in public baths. So there is the ‘calidarium,’ a very warm environment, and also the ‘tiepidarium,’ and also a large tub with cold water,” he said.

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Video above: Pompeii excavation unearths large, private bathhouse

“We have here perhaps the largest thermal complex in a private house in Pompeii,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. “The members of the ruling class of Pompeii set up enormous spaces in their homes to host banquets.”

“They had the function of creating consensus, promoting an election campaign, closing deals. It was an opportunity to show the wealth in which they lived and also to have a nice thermal treatment,” he explained.

The baths were discovered in the so-called Regio IX, a large central area of the Pompeii park that is still unexplored and where major archaeological excavations are revealing new aspects of Pompeians’ daily lives.

Recently, archaeologists working in the same area found a bakery, a laundry shop, two villas and the bones of three people who died during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed both the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Zuchtriegel said wealthy inhabitants of Pompeii often used to first take a bath and then have a banquet, so the private spa complex allowed them to do that all inside the same house.

“There is room for about 30 people who could do the whole route, and that could also be done in public baths. So there is the ‘calidarium,’ a very warm environment, and also the ‘tiepidarium,’ and also a large tub with cold water,” he said.

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