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Herculaneum

Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic flow in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town in Italy that was buried by Mount Vesuvius when it erupted in 79 AD. It matters because the volcanic ash and debris that covered it preserved the town and its contents, allowing us to study Roman life and culture from that period.

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Key facts

Ancient site.name: Herculaneum
Ancient site.alternate_name: Ercolano
Ancient site.image: 260px
Ancient site.caption: The excavations of Herculaneum
Ancient site.map_type: Italy
Ancient site.location: Ercolano, Campania, Italy
Ancient site.type: Settlement
Ancient site.built: 6th–7th century BC
Ancient site.abandoned: 79 AD
Ancient site.website: Herculaneum – Official website
Ancient site.designation1: WHS
Ancient site.designation1_offname: Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Torre Annunziata
Ancient site.designation1_type: Cultural
Ancient site.designation1_criteria: iii, iv, v
Ancient site.designation1_date: 1997 (21st session)
Ancient site.designation1_number: 829
Ancient site.designation1_free1name: Region
Ancient site.designation1_free1value: Europe and North America

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History of Herculaneum
Eruption of 79 AD
Archaeology
The city
The House of Aristides (Ins II, 1)
The House of Argus (Ins II, 2)
The House of the Genius (Ins II, 3)
The House of the Alcove (Ins IV)
College of the Augustales
Central Baths
Villa of the Papyri
Boathouses and the Shore
Issues of conservation
Modern conservation
Gallery
Documentaries
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
Resources
External links

Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic flow in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Like the nearby city of Pompeii, Herculaneum is notable as one of the few well-preserved ancient Roman cities, as the volcanic material that buried the town helped protect it from looting and weathering. Although less known than Pompeii today, it was the first and, for a long time, the only discovered Vesuvian city (in 1709). Pompeii was revealed in 1748 and identified in 1763. Unlike Pompeii, the mainly pyroclastic material that covered Herculaneum carbonized and preserved more wooden objects such as roofs, beds, and doors, as well as other organic-based materials such as food and papyrus.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Herculaneum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.