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ENT In dealing with Herculaneum in the Past and Present we havetaken particular pains not to allow the main thesis of thisbook—that Herculaneum is the one site above all others whichought to be excavated—in any way to influence our treatment ofthe topography, the ethnography, the effect of the eruptions onthe ancient remains, and the actual ...
A plan of Herculaneum and the location of the Villa. The Villa of the Papyri (Italian: Villa dei Papiri, also known as Villa dei Pisoni and in early excavation records as the Villa Suburbana) was an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum, in what is now Ercolano, southern Italy. It is named after its unique library of papyri scrolls, discovered in ...
The Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte (Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed) is an eight-volume book of engravings of the findings from excavating the ruins of Herculaneum in the Kingdom of Naples (now Italy). It was published between 1757 and 1792, and copies were given to selected recipients across Europe.
The beach at the Herculaneum archaeological park is thought to be the site where more than 300 men tried in vain to save ... An ancient beach that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...
Discovered in the ruins of a villa thought to have been owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, the Herculaneum papyri are a collection of around 1,000 scrolls ...
Featuring one of the best collections of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the UNESCO World Heritage Site was a major center of culture from 850 A.D. to 1250 A.D. and today houses a number of ...
Herculaneum [a] 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 .
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Kansas, in the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.