A splendid, comfortable villa belonging to the Roman coastal resort city of Stabiae, possessing things that seem to be only found in modern times.

According to Heritage Daily, it is a perfect water system for a villa complex with a huge collective H๏τ shower, a large gym and many other comfortable rooms that need water, designed no less than the convenient water systems you use in your home today.

This section of water pipe was… 2,000 years old – (PH๏τo: POMPEII ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK)

The system consists of 2 main pipes connected to the central water tank located in the skylight, supplying water throughout the 2,500m2 villa complex, with many intertwined pipes regulating water into different rooms, with closing/opening valves no different from current faucets and quite convenient installation for regular maintenance.

What is shocking is that this villa is at least 2,000 years old.

According to a team of researchers from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii in Italy, the villa complex was first excavated between 1757 and 1762 but studies are still ongoing.

It was just one of several miles of luxury villas of the ancient Roman aristocracy, belonging to a small coastal city called Stabiae. Roman emperors such as Julius Caesar, Augustus and Tiberius also owned villas in this area.

The ancient Stabiae, now part of the Italian province of Naples, was buried along with the city of Pompeii and the nearby town of Herculanium in a thick layer of ash amid the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

The ruins of a “modern” villa built more than 2,000 years ago, after hundreds of years of efforts to remove volcanic ash – (PH๏τo: POMPEII ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK)

It was the disaster that left the famous fierce “petrified” images of Pompeii, and at the same time buried a series of works bearing the imprint of the “timeless” civilization of the Romans.

This is not the first “modern air penetration” found in these three buried cities. Many previous works have revealed the incredible level of science and technology and the “modern” lifestyle of the Romans, such as the 2,000-year-old “high-tech” paved streets, or a “pedestrian street” with “takeaway” fast food stalls along the roadside.

State-of-the-art water and drainage systems cater to the hobby of relaxing in Roman public H๏τ baths and beautifully decorated fountains have also been found here, but the new discovery has taken it up a notch, showing their incredible level.