Excavations at Pompeii have revealed a large private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago.

Archaeologists at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD, have unearthed a 2,000-year-old private bathhouse, officials said Friday.

The discovery includes stunning mosaics, a series of warm, hot and cold rooms and a large pool equipped with a spa path.

“Here we have perhaps the largest thermal complex in a private house in Pompeii,” said Gabriel Zuchtrigel, director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park. “Members of Pompeii’s ruling class prepared large spaces in their homes to host banquets.”

Spa-like baths were found in the central area of ​​Pompeii Park, known as Reggio IX, where the major Archaeological excavations They are revealing new aspects of Pompeian daily life.

“These are the places that are part of the ‘Pompeii effect’ — it’s like the people just left a minute ago,” Zukriegel told CBS News. BBC news.

According to Zukrigel, wealthy residents of Pompeii often used it first to bathe and then to have a party, so they allowed a private spa complex to be held in the same house.

“There is a place for 30 people who do the whole routine and this can be done in the public baths. So there is a calidarium, a very hot area and also a large pool with cold water,” he said.

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

The bodies were identified as a woman carrying jewelery and coins and a young man in his teens or early 20s, the BBC reported.

Sophie He, an archaeologist at Pompeii, told the BBC: “The pyroclastic flow from Vesuvius came on the way outside this room and caused the wall to collapse, and it basically collapsed and died. “The woman was still alive while she was dying – imagine the damage – and then this room was filled with the rest of the pyroclastic flow. It was filled, and that’s how she died.”