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		</div><p>A new treasure has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD – a private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago.</p>
<p>The structure was decorated with sumptuous mosaics and equipped with a series of hot, warm and cold rooms in the manner of a spa.</p>
<p>Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park, said: “We have here perhaps the largest thermal complex in a private house in Pompeii.</p>
<figure id="attachment_185307" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-185307" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_7448.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-185307" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-185307" class="wp-caption-text">The private bathhouse would have been used by the ruling classes to entertain</figcaption></figure>
<p>“The members of the ruling class of Pompeii set up enormous spaces in their homes to host banquets.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>The baths were unearthed in the so-called Regio IX, a large central area of Pompeii park still unexplored, where major archaeological excavations are revealing new aspects of Pompeiians’ daily life.</p>
<figure id="attachment_185308" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-185308" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_7449.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-185308" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-185308" class="wp-caption-text">The private spa boasts a calidarium (Archaeological Park of Pompeii Press</figcaption></figure>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Mr Zuchtriegel said wealthy habitants of Pompeii often used first to take a bath and then to have a banquet, so the private spa complex allowed to do that altogether inside the same house.</p>
<p>“There is room for about 30 people who could do the whole routine, and that could also be done in public baths.</p>
<p>“So there is the calidarium, a very warm environment and also a large tub with cold water.”</p>
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