Biggest Ever Private Bathhouse Found - Pompeii
A large thermal bath complex has been uncovered on January 2025 at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, buried by 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pictured: The frigidarium (cold). The private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago, is decorated with sumptuous mosaics and equipped with a series of hot, warm and cold rooms in the manner of a spa.The find was made during excavations of a domus, a private town house, in block (insula) 10 of the Regio IX area of Pompeii. The complex, which is connected to a banquet hall, is one of the largest and most sophisticated thermal baths found at a Pompeian domus. The baths, composed of a calidarium, tepidarium, frigidarium (hot, warm and cold room) and changing room (apodyterium), could accommodate up to thirty people judging by the benches present in the latter room. The archaeologists said the cold room is very impressive, composed of a peristyle, or a porticoed courtyard measuring 10 x 10 meters, at the center of which is a large pool. The members of the ruling class o
- Product Code
- ILEA003860130
- Registered date
- 2025/1/10 00:00:00
- Credit
- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
- Media size
- 1500 × 1001 pixel
- Deployment size
- 1.48(MB)*
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.