herculaneum in English

noun
1
an ancient Roman town, near Naples, on the lower slopes of Mount Vesuvius. The volcano's eruption in ad 79 buried it, along with Pompeii, deeply under volcanic ash and thus largely preserved it until its accidental rediscovery by a well-digger in 1709.

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1. (b) What warning did many inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum ignore, and with what result?

2. Many of Pompeii's neighbouring communities, most famously Herculaneum, also suffered damage or destruction during the 79 eruption.

3. In Campania, he visits Herculaneum and ventured into the crater of Vesuvius, then active, which he will report in a scientific treatise.

4. ‘Carbonized foodstuffs discovered during excavations at the ancient town of Herculaneum’ More example sentences ‘peat is partially Carbonized plant material that forms in bogs over hundreds of years’

5. Antiquities in Motion: From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections $80.00 USD Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum $65.00 USD How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life $16.95 USD

6. 21 The catastrophe at Pompeii and Herculaneum and the events surrounding the destruction of Jerusalem, as well as the examples of the Flood of Noah’s day and of Lot, all illustrate the importance of taking warnings seriously.

7. ‘In so Bountifully expressing his humanity through those inhuman few months, he made more of a mark on history than any of us will.’ ‘These paintings are most Bountifully evident in villas at Pompeii and Herculaneum, although some prime examples have been found in and near Rome.’