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Bookmark or Share- Herculaneum - WikipediaHerculaneum (/ h ɜːr k j ʊ ˈ l eɪ n i ə m /; Neapolitan and Italian: Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town, located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
- Herculaneum - Guide and Info for Visiting the Ruins - Visit PompeiiHerculaneum has been preserved like no other site in the world, not even nearby Pompeii. The city was buried beneath 16 meters of ash and mud during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, and this layer of detritus saved two-story domus homes with the internal architecture and décor intact, including features in wood and marble, decorations ...
- Herculaneum - World History EncyclopediaHerculaneum, located on the Bay of Naples, was a Roman town which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Like its neighbour Pompeii, the...
- Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre AnnunziataBrief synthesis. The World Heritage property includes three different archaeological areas: the ancient towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum together with the Villa of the Mysteries (to the west of Pompeii) and the Villa of the Papyri (to the west of Herculaneum), and the Villa A (Villa of Poppaea) and Villa B (Villa of Lucius Crassius Tertius) in ...
- Herculaneum | History, Archeology, Papyri, & Facts | BritannicaHerculaneum, ancient city of 4,000–5,000 inhabitants in Campania, Italy. It lay 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Naples , at the western base of Mount Vesuvius , and was destroyed—together with Pompeii , Torre Annunziata , and Stabiae —by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 ce .
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