Restoring The Roman Retreat Of Herculaneum Beach, Buried By Vesuvius
Herculaneum beach in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on October 24th 79 AD, is to be excavated and restored. When the archaeologists finish, visitors will be able to stroll along Herculaneum beach, as elite Romans once did, before the lethal surge of nature wiped the region out.
Herculaneum Beach: Created And Destroyed By A Volcano
Like today, but perhaps even more so in the ancient world, people were attached to their ancestral territories. For thousands of years people had farmed on the hyper-fertile slopes of Mount Vesuvius and nobody in the Roman world predicted that their natural sustainer of life, Vesuvius, was also a destroyer god who would take back everything.