The Town of Hercules: A Buried Treasure Trove (Getty Trust Publications : J. Paul Getty Museum) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Town of Hercules In A.D. 79, Herculaneum, a small resort town on Italy's western coast, was buried, along with its larger neighbor Pompeii, under an avalanche of lava and ash by Mount Vesuvius. So deep were the towns buried that over the centuries even the memory of them faded. It was not until early in the eighteenth century that evidence of the towns was accidentally discovered. For the next fifty years, haphaza...
Full description- Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
- Published: 28 December 1995
- Format: Hardback 176 pages
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- Categories: History | People & Places | Citizenship & Social Education | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780892362226 ISBN 10: 0892362227
- Sales rank: 1,376,020
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Full description for The Town of Hercules
In A.D. 79, Herculaneum, a small resort town on Italy's western coast, was buried, along with its larger neighbor Pompeii, under an avalanche of lava and ash by Mount Vesuvius. So deep were the towns buried that over the centuries even the memory of them faded. It was not until early in the eighteenth century that evidence of the towns was accidentally discovered. For the next fifty years, haphazard excavations and looting began to hint at the extent of what still lay buried. Only in the middle of the nineteenth century were systematic excavations begun, revealing the astonishing remains of the two Roman towns. Written especially for young adults, The Town of Hercules tells the tragic story of the eruption of Vesuvius and explains, through the example of the town itself, how life was lived in the Roman Empire during the first century A.D.
