Herculaneum
About Herculaneum
Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic flow in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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He justifies himself as they did right into the 19th century with the secret room of the British Museum, which contained all the sort of phallic statuary and things that were considered inappropriate for the public. There was a secret museum at Naples and it's exactly the same thing. All the erotic art that was found at Pompeii and Herculaneum. There's a statue of the god Pan sort of he's getting off with a goat.
from 136: No Such Thing As A Wolf Diving For Clams, 2016-10-22 at 00:04:19 · read transcript
Other times Herculaneum came up
Yeah, no, it's an extraordinary place. Highly recommend you go there. They also one of the things they find amazing about Pompeii. Oh, it might be Herculaneum, which was the place nearby that the same thing happened to it is the scrolls that were found. 800 scrolls were found perfectly preserved as everything there was. It's one of the ancient world's best surviving libraries, most extensive surviving libraries.
No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017, 2017-12-29 · listen
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