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Herculaneum | excavation archive images
Images of the excavations at Herculaneum, the Roman town on the Bay of Naples which was buried - like its neighbour Pompeii - by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Cardo IV |
Cardo V |
Decumanus Maximus |
House of the Bicentenary |
Cardo V |
House of Neptune |