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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1078
Land area (2000): 3.438353 sq. miles (8.905293 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.046609 sq. miles (0.120718 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.484962 sq. miles (9.026011 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31708
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.259247 N, 90.387790 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63048
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Herculaneum
Wikipedia
Located in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum ( Italian: Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows in 79 AD. Its ruins are located in the commune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.
As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is famous as one of the few ancient cities that can now be seen in much of its original splendour, as well as for having been lost, along with Pompeii, Stabiae, Oplontis and Boscoreale, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 that buried it. Unlike Pompeii, the deep pyroclastic material which covered it preserved wooden and other organic-based objects such as roofs, beds, doors, food and even some 300 skeletons which were surprisingly discovered in recent years along the seashore as it was thought until then that the town had been evacuated by the inhabitants.
Herculaneum was a wealthier town than Pompeii, possessing an extraordinary density of fine houses with, for example, far more lavish use of coloured marble cladding.
Herculaneum was an ancient Roman city.
Herculaneum may also refer to:
- Ercolano, an Italian town near the Roman city
- Herculaneum (crater), on Mars
- Herculaneum, Missouri
- Herculaneum Pottery, in Liverpool, England
- Owen, Indiana, originally known as Herculaneum
Usage examples of "herculaneum".
The bandits might drag him away to be sold so far from Herculaneum, he'd never have a chance to rescue Sibyl and little Lucania.
From the representations of ancient tools found in the paintings at Herculaneum it appears that the frame-saw used by the ancients very nearly resembled that still in use.
There was a landscape panel, a stunning turquoise seascape, with finely touched white villas on a shore that looked exactly like Surrentum or Herculaneum.
No one living in Herculaneum would need to worry about the slow-moving pyroclastic flow of molten pumice and mud which would eventually engulf the city and bury it beneath sixty feet of solid rock.