The Town of Hercules: A Buried Treasure Trove (Getty Trust Publications : J. Paul Getty Museum) by Joseph Jay Deiss
The Town of Hercules: A Buried Treasure Trove (Getty Trust Publications : J. Paul Getty Museum)

Joseph Jay Deiss

The Town of Hercules: A Buried Treasure Trove (Getty Trust Publications : J. Paul Getty Museum)

Joseph Jay Deiss

183 pages first pub 1974 (view editions)

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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 ...

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