The impressive bathhouse reveals how Pompeii’s elite lived and how their slaves suffered.

Archaeologists have uncovered one of Pompeii’s largest and most elaborate private bathhouses. Complete with mosaic floors, ...

It started out as another day in the year 79 CE for the residents of Pompeii, a city in picturesque Southern Italy; the men ...

The second, probably aged 18 to 23, was dressed in a tunic and had a number of crushed vertebrae, indicating that he had been a slave who did heavy labour. The remains were found in Civita Giuliana, ...

In another part of Pompeii, traces of the lives of people who are rarely mentioned in historical sources—slaves—were discovered. In the Roman villa Civita Giuliana, a so-called "slave room ...

An entire block of Pompeii has now been uncovered, revealing a laundry and bakery, as well as the large private house. It's ...

providing valuable insights into the social and political life of Pompeii's elite, as well as the harsh realities faced by the slaves who served them. More akin to a modern spa than a simple sauna ...

Archeologists in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD, unearthed a private bathhouse built over 2,000 years ago, officials said Friday. The discovery includes sumptuous ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The baths were unearthed in the so-called Regio IX, a large central area of Pompeii still unexplored where ...

It’s a place to have a spa day fit for an emperor. The largest private Roman bathhouse ever found in the ruined ancient city of Pompeii has been discovered recently by archaeologists under a ...

Archaeologists have been given a new insight into what life in Pompeii was like as they uncover a spa-like complex in what has been described as a “once-in-a-century” find. What is thought to be one ...

But Pompeii is the gift that just keeps on giving ... It was smelly hard work, done by slaves. The bakery was no better. Right up against the private resident was stabling, probably for the ...