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[00:00.41] Archeological research has uncovered another treasure of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii: a large private bathhouse.

[00:14.23] The explosion of Mount Vesuvius in 70 AD buried Pompeii in thick ash, wreckage, and lava, or hot liquid rock.

[00:30.16] Archeologists are continuing to find remains of the city under the ground.

[00:38.13] The bathhouse was part of a large private house, the scientists said. The bathhouse holds a series of rooms that would have provided hot, warm, or cold conditions.

[00:55.13] The art and design of the complex, including mosaic works, also suggest the owner was wealthy.

[01:05.49] “We have here perhaps the largest thermal complex in a private house in Pompeii,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park.

[01:21.16] He explained that Pompeii’s powerful and wealthy set up large spaces at their homes to hold major gatherings for ceremonies and other purposes.

[01:37.37] “It was an opportunity to show the wealth in which they lived and also to have a nice thermal treatment," he said.

[01:50.12] The baths were unearthed in the so-called Regio IX, a large central area of Pompeii Park that is still unexplored.

[02:02.60] Recently, archeologists working in the same area found a bakery, a laundry and two homes.

[02:13.49] They also found the bones of three people who died in the volcanic burst.

[02:21.46] Pompeii was not the only city destroyed in the explosion.

[02:27.30] It also buried the city of Herculaneum.

[02:31.82] Zuchtriegel said wealthy citizens of Pompeii often would first take a bath and then attend a banquet, or a big meal.

[02:44.84] The private thermal complex permitted them to do so together at the home where the banquet was held.

[02:54.13] “There is room for about 30 people who could do the whole routine, and that could also be done in public baths.

[03:04.23] So there is the caldarium, a very warm environment, and also a large tub with cold water,” he said.