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Scientists Unveil Pompeii Bathhouse
ROME (AP) - Archaeologists have unveiled
another steamy corner of ancient Pompeii, and
this time it is an eyeful: a bathhouse with a
unisex dressing room whose lockers sport
erotic sex scenes.
Italian officials inaugurated the new addition to
the sprawling ancient city on Wednesday.
Pompeii was buried by ash when Mount
Vesuvius erupted in 79, and the archaeological
site near Naples is one of Italy's biggest tourist
attractions.
Much of ancient Pompeii is still being
excavated. Nearly a half-century ago
archaeologists uncovered the remains of the
thermal bathhouse, which featured a marvel of
plumbing for those times: a swimming pool
heated to a constant temperature.
Starting next month, the new discovery will be open to the public.
Besides a sauna room and pools for washing in hot and cold water,
tourists will be able to see an ancient version of lockers - chests to store
their clothes while dipping in the pools. Eight paintings vividly depicting
sex acts were found by archaeologists.
Archaeologists said there was only one changing room, likely used by
both sexes.
Last year, a highly popular exhibit in a Naples museum featured a
collection of ancient erotic art, much of it from Pompeii, a city that was
living high when it was destroyed in a day.
Considerable evidence testifies that Pompeii's wealthy merchants and
visiting sailors had a taste for eroticism and that prostitution flourished in
Roman times. Most of the artifacts in the show were found in
bathhouses or bordellos in Pompeii and Herculaneum, another ruined
ancient city near Naples.
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A view of the new addition to the ancient city of Pompeii, Southern Italy,
inaugurated Wednesday, Nov.14, 2001. The steamy corner unveiled Wednesday is a
bathhouse with a unisex dressing room whose lockers sport erotic sex scenes.
Pompeii, the archaeological site near Naples, was buried by ash when Mount
Vesuvius erupted in 79.
ROME (AP) - Archaeologists have unveiled
another steamy corner of ancient Pompeii, and
this time it is an eyeful: a bathhouse with a
unisex dressing room whose lockers sport
erotic sex scenes.
Italian officials inaugurated the new addition to
the sprawling ancient city on Wednesday.
Pompeii was buried by ash when Mount
Vesuvius erupted in 79, and the archaeological
site near Naples is one of Italy's biggest tourist
attractions.
Much of ancient Pompeii is still being
excavated. Nearly a half-century ago
archaeologists uncovered the remains of the
thermal bathhouse, which featured a marvel of
plumbing for those times: a swimming pool
heated to a constant temperature.
Starting next month, the new discovery will be open to the public.
Besides a sauna room and pools for washing in hot and cold water,
tourists will be able to see an ancient version of lockers - chests to store
their clothes while dipping in the pools. Eight paintings vividly depicting
sex acts were found by archaeologists.
Archaeologists said there was only one changing room, likely used by
both sexes.
Last year, a highly popular exhibit in a Naples museum featured a
collection of ancient erotic art, much of it from Pompeii, a city that was
living high when it was destroyed in a day.
Considerable evidence testifies that Pompeii's wealthy merchants and
visiting sailors had a taste for eroticism and that prostitution flourished in
Roman times. Most of the artifacts in the show were found in
bathhouses or bordellos in Pompeii and Herculaneum, another ruined
ancient city near Naples.
**********
A view of the new addition to the ancient city of Pompeii, Southern Italy,
inaugurated Wednesday, Nov.14, 2001. The steamy corner unveiled Wednesday is a
bathhouse with a unisex dressing room whose lockers sport erotic sex scenes.
Pompeii, the archaeological site near Naples, was buried by ash when Mount
Vesuvius erupted in 79.
