Archaeologists have unearthed a private bathhouse built more than 2,000 years ago in the ancient city of Pompeii, which was buried by volcanic ash and lava in AD 70, officials said Friday.

The find includes ornate mosaics and is equipped with a series of hot, warm and cold rooms as well as a huge plunge pool in the form of a spa.

"What we have here is probably the largest spa complex in a private residence in Pompeii," said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park. "Members of Pompeii's ruling class set up in their homes Huge space to host banquets.”

These thermal baths were excavated in the so-called "Regio IX" area, the central area of ​​Pompeii Park that is currently undeveloped and mainly archaeological excavation Reveals new aspects of daily life in Pompeii.

"These spaces are really part of the 'Pompeii effect' - it's like people left just a minute ago," Zuttrigel told CBS News partner BBC News.

Zuchtriegel said wealthy residents of Pompeii often bathed first and then held banquets, so private spas allowed it all to be done in the same house.

"There's space for about 30 people to do the whole routine and also in the public bathroom. So there's a high temperature bathroom, a very warm environment, and a big tub with cold water," he said.

Recently, archaeologists working in the same area discovered a bakery, a laundromat, two villas and the bones of three people People who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuviuswhich destroyed the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The bodies belonged to a woman holding jewelry and coins, and a young man in his late teens or early 20s, the BBC reported.

Pompeii archaeologist Sophie Hay told the BBC: "The pyroclastic flow from Mount Vesuvius flowed along the street outside this room, causing the wall to collapse and basically crush him to death." "When he The woman was alive when she was about to die - imagine the trauma - and then the room filled with the rest of the pyroclastic flow, and that's how she died."