A villa 600 meters (about 1968.5 feet) to the north of Pompeii by the name of Civita Guiliana began being excavated in 2017 but recently a new room within the villa has been unearthed where it is strongly believed the slaves slept. This is thought because of poor conditions within the room. The report of the site has come from Chiara A Corbino who is an archeologist at the university of Sheffield and Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of the Archeological Park of Pompeii.  
This discovery is particularly useful as it allows us to see more into the lives of slaves, which was not heavily documented due to their low status. (Corbino and Zuchtriegel, 2023) We get a glimpse of virtually photographic quality into the lives of a group of people who hardly appear in the written sources. The archeological park informs us that within this room there were two beds with small cupboards, tools, and ceramics. Civita Guiliana is proving to be a highly successful excavation site and is regularly giving us new pieces of information as to the general lives of civilians and now slaves in the roman world. 
In 2021 another room within the villa was discovered which also appeared to be used for housing slaves, however this new room is slightly different to that one. This first room looked as though it was potentially being used for storage due to an array of various objects which did not belong in the room, and it had three beds instead of the two from this new room. These three beds did not have mattresses and looked of a lower quality than in the second room but in the second room one bed did have a mattress, however the other one did not. This difference between the rooms leads people to believe that there was in fact a hierarchy of slaves within the villa. (Corbino and Zuchtriegel, 2023) Such slaves often would be granted privileges in order to make them reliable allies of the master. The first room discovered has been named room C and the second room A. 
Within the room there was no sign of any locks, shackles or iron grills and the doors and windows were not blocked. This proves to us that the master must have used alternative methods of keeping the slaves from escaping or rebelling against the people living in the villa. (Zuchtriegel 2023) We know that the owners used various privileges, including the possibility of forming a family, albeit without any legal protection, to bind some slaves more closely to the villa, also with the purpose of having them as allies in guarding the others.  
The report written by Corbino and Zuchtriegel highlights the terrible and very unhygienic living conditions that these slaves were forced to endure. Within the room there were discoveries of a multitude of rodent remains including mice and even a rat found within a clay jug (Julia Binswanger 2023) was likely trying to escape the eruption. 
The room that was discovered was preserved so well due to the fact that during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD the room was filled with volcanic debris. The whole city of Pompeii and the nearby town of Herculaneum were covered with around four to six meters of this volcanic dust which turned to soil over time. Within the volcanic dust there was hot ash, molten rock, super-heated tephra, pulverised pumice and other gases. This was projected 33 kilometers (20.5 miles) into the air at a rate of 1.5 million tons every second. This eruption resulted in a thermal energy of around 100,000 times that of the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Within this volcanic debris the materials of everything in the room slowly decomposed leaving pockets of air in the exact shape of what was there. We can now fill these pockets with plaster which allows us to see exactly how it would have looked at the moment of eruption. This is what gives us our now near photographic record of how the room would have looked whilst it was being used nearly 2000 years ago.  
The site was originally excavated between 1907 and 1908. In 2017 these excavations continued due to people illegally digging at the villa. This was discovered by the police and the choice was made to start excavating properly to save what was inside. One of the beds had been damaged by a thief digging a tunnel to access another section of the villa. The decision was made to return to the site so that the remaining undamaged parts of the villa could be excavated before being damaged. 
The Archeologists excavating this site have received €105m (£90m) from the European Union to use to aid their research and discoveries. Gennaro Sangiuliano the Italian culture minister is fully on board with the excavations and said (Gennaro Sangiuliano, 2023) What we are learning about the material conditions and social organisation of that era opens up new horizons for historical and archaeological studies. The groups doing the excavations are the Archeological Park of Pompeii and the Public Prosecutors Office of Torre Annunziata.  
This discovery is vital to thoroughly understanding much more about the inside lives of roman civilians almost 2000 years ago and more specifically slaves as until this point we did not know a huge amount. Slaves were not written about in ancient texts so this excavation at Civita Guiliana is a big step forward.