Everything was functional to the staging of a ‘show’ at the center of which was the owner himself,” said the archaeological ...

warm and cold rooms in the manner of a spa. “We have here perhaps the largest thermal complex in a private house in Pompeii,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park.

Inside a residential house, archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest and most intricate thermal spa complexes yet found at the world-renowned site, according to the Archaeological Park of ...