Ancient site · Italy · Partial ruin
Herculaneum
Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town on the Bay of Naples, preserved beneath volcanic material from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Excavations have revealed streets, houses, baths, a theatre and the Villa of the Papyri, with many organic materials unusually well preserved. Much of the original town remains buried beneath later ground.
Its prime
AD 79
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in AD 79
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact coastal Roman town of low, terraced houses built of tufa, brick and opus reticulatum, many faced with coloured marble panels and topped by red terracotta roof tiles. Narrow paved streets and colonnaded courtyards open onto a modest forum and a semicircular stone theatre; the shoreline is lined by a sequence of arched boathouse vaults. Colours are warm ochres, pale ash-stained stone, dark terracotta roofs and painted wall surfaces set beneath a backdrop of Vesuvius and the sea.
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11 places to explore in AD 79.
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