Herculaneum, Italy Walking Tour in 4K
****You can click on the time links below to skip ahead.****On August 24th, 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius erupted for the first time in centuries. Herculaneum, just 3 miles away from the base of Mt. Vesuvius was spared from initial destruction as the wind carried most of the ash and pumice on to Pompeii. On the following night, the plume of ash above Mt. Vesuvius collapsed causing massive pyroclastic flows that buried both Pompeii and Herculaneum. While most of Pompeii has been excavated. It is estimated that only 25% of Herculaneum has been excavated. The rest lies under the current city of Ercolano.
In this video you will see:
00:00 - The ticket entrance
03:45 - Entrance to the archaeological site (Cardo III)
04:40 - House of Aristides
05:36 - House of Argus
08:26 - House of the Skeleton
12:21 - Lower Decumanus Road
13:03 - Cardo IV
13:11 - House of the Wooden Partition
15:55 - House of the Bronze Herma
16:40 - House of the Inn
19:45 - House of the Mosaic Atrium
20:30 - House of the Alcove
27:13 - Cardo III
27:46 - House of Galba
29:03 -Central Thermae (Roman Baths)
29:35 - Apodyterium (Changing Room)
30:40 - Frigidarium (Cold Room)
31:00 - Tepidarium (Warm Room)
31:54 - Caldarium (Hot Room)
35:15 - College of the Augustales
37:06 - The Decumans Maximus
37:58 - House of the Tuscan Colonnade
39:33 - House of the Black Hall
42:54 - House of the Double Porticos
43:35 - House of the Bicentenary
44:48 - Cardo IV
45:40 - House of the Beautiful Courtyard
46:15 - House of the Neptune Mosaic
47:41 - Wine Shop
48:55 - Samnite House
51:23 - Lower Decumanus Road (Decumanus Inferior)
51:43 - House of the Grand Portal
53:11 - Taberna Vasaria
53:35 - Cardo V
54:38 - Decumanus Maximus
56:42 - Bakery
58:34 - Palaestra (partially excavated)
1:00:14 - Swimming pool
1:03:29 - Cardo V
1:04:22 - House of the Relief of Telephus
1:05:44 - House of the Deer
1:07:40 - Terrace view of the Bay of Naples - Digital edit :)
1:10:51 - Marine Gate
1:11:20 - Terrace of M. Nonius Balbus
1:11:56 - Suburban Baths (outside view only)
1:13:06 - The Sacred Area
1:15:34 - The ancient waterfront (Skeletal Remains in Boathouses)
1:18:20 - Exit up through the lava rock
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Herculaneum College of the Augustales
This is the so-called College of the Augustales (freedmen priests of the imperial cult) at Herculaneum. The identifcation, based on two inscriptions found nearby, has been challenged recently by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Herculaneum Past and Future, London 2011, pp. 178ff) who points out that three graffiti in the building name it as the Curia Augustana - he therefore identifies it as the Curia (meeting place for the town council/senate). The paintings depict Hercules. once with Achelous and Deianeria, and being met by Minerva when he arrived in heaven. Filmed in February 2012.
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Casa di Nettuno e Anfitrite
Ruins of Herculaneum
Scavi Archeologici di Ercolano
Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa
Villa Campolieto
La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo
College of the Augustales
Museo Archeologico Virtuale (MAV)
Herculanense Museum
Basilica di Santa Croce
Herculaneum Ruins: Better than Pompeii?
Herculaneum is the wealthier, smaller sister city to Pompeii. Its houses are bigger, mosaics are cooler, and the ruins are more intact. Explore Herculaneum with us to see everything in this beautiful seaside town, including some 2000-year-old wooden beams!
If you'd like to see our experience in Pompeii, watch this video:
Herculaneum is much smaller than Pompeii, and it's laid out on a grid with only seven blocks to explore, so it's easy to see everything. You can walk the entire length of the city in just a few minutes, but each block is packed with amazing houses and structures to explore, so you can see it all quickly or take your time wandering and looking at every little detail.
Herculaneum is also closer to Naples than Pompeii, making it a better choice for a quick day-trip if you want to see ruins but also want to spend time exploring Naples or eating pizza (see our video about the best pizza in Naples here:
We visited too many ruins to include them all in this list, but here are timestamps for some of the major highlights in Herculaneum:
0:28 - Casa del Salone Nero (House of the Black Hall)
1:01 - Sede degli Augustali (College of the Augustales) - with 2000-yr old wooden beams!!
1:45 - Herculaneum history: Mount Vesuvius eruption and how it was different from Pompeii
3:05 - Casa dei Cervi (House of the Deer) - with the drunken Hercules statue
3:50 - Casa del Bel Cortile (House of Beautiful Courtyard)
4:13 - Casa di Nettuno e Anfitrite (House of Neptune and Amphitrite)
4:28 - Casa Sannitica (Samnite House)
4:50 - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno (House of the Wooden Partition)
5:13 - Casa dell'Atrio a Mosaico (House of the Mosaic Atrium)
5:33 - Casa dello Scheletro (House of the Skeleton)
5:44 - Thermopolium (Hot food stand)
6:04 - Terme Maschili e Femminili (Men's and Women's Baths)
6:45 - Casa d'Argo (House of Argus)
7:05 - Casa dei Due Atri (House of the Double Atrium)
8:14 - Fornici (Shoreline Vaults) - where about 300 skeletons were found
8:55 - Visitor Center - with many artifacts and household goods from Herculaneum
9:48 - Herculaneum review and comparison to Pompeii
10:16 - The future of Herculaneum (they're still excavating!)
Thanks for watching! If you have any questions about visiting the Herculaneum Archaeological Park or Naples or traveling with a baby/toddler, ask us in the comments. We answer everything!
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Detail of the carbonized beams in the 'College of the Augustales' at Herculaneum
Detail of the carbonized beams in the 'College of the Augustales' at Herculaneum.
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ANCIENT HUMAN BRAIN TURNED TO GLASS AFTER MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTED
INTENSE HEAT DURING the Mount Vesuvius volcanic eruption, nearly 2000 years ago, turned an ancient victim’s brain into glass, scientists in Italy said.
The archaeological team spotted the rare phenomenon while examining the exploded skull of a 25 year old man.
This is the first ever discovery of human brain remains, vitrified by heat at temperatures reaching 950 °F during a volcanic eruption.
The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday (23).
The black shiny brain fragments splattered inside the skull and caked over parts of it belonged to a young adult who was found in the 1960s during the excavation of the College of the Augustales in Herculaneum.
It’s believed he was the caretaker of the building, which was dedicated to worshiping Augustus, the first emperor of Rome.
The Other Pompeii - Life and Death in Herculaneum
First broadcast: BBC Two, 9:00PM Mon, 1 Apr 2013
Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill presents a documentary following the scientific investigation that aims to lift the lid on what life was like in the small Roman town of Herculaneum, moments before it was destroyed by a volcanic erruption.
Just 10 miles from Pompeii, 12 arched vaults are telling a whole new story about what life was like before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. They contain the skeletons of no less than 340 people, just 10% of the local population, killed by the volcano. Amongst them are the first new skeletons to be found in the area for 30 years which are now the subject of a ground-breaking scientific investigation. The finds included a toddler clutching his pet dog, a two-year-old girl with silver earrings and a boy staring into the eyes of his mother as they embraced in their last moment.
Those found inside the vaults were nearly all women and children. Those found outside on the shoreline were nearly all men. Why?
The Other Pompeii: Life and Death In Herculaneum unravels a surprising story of resilience, courage and humanity, with the local population going to their deaths not in the apocalyptic orgy of sex and self-destruction often portrayed in Pompeii's popular myth, but, much more like the passengers of the Titanic, it seems that like their British counterparts, the ancient inhabitants of Herculaneum put women and children first.
Presenting the film is Britain's greatest Pompeianist, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill of the University of Cambridge, and Director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project. He takes us to meet the scientists leading the forensic project - Luca Bondioli and Luciano Fattore - and then on a tour of the incredible town where the skeletons once lived. On this journey he uncovers their houses, their wooden furniture (including their beds and the only surviving baby's cradle from the Roman world), their food and even their waste (that's human waste), perfectly preserved by a layer of ash up to five times deeper than Pompeii. New scientific analysis has enabled us to unearth not just what they ate, but even how they ate it, it seems they had a penchant for eating fish whole including their heads, a tradition, that as Professor Wallace-Hadrill discovers, has astonishingly survived in Herculaneum to this day.
With stunning aerial photography of Herculaneum, this film gives us a behind the scenes look at this place and its extraordinary ancient inhabitants as they've never been seen before. It opens the lid on a tiny, yet astonishing Roman town, which drew immigrants from Syria and beyond, and where perfectly preserved court transcripts scratched on wooden tablets tell of slaves challenging their status in the town's courts.
Wandering Herculaneum
We also saw Herculaneum, which like Pompeii, was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted...
Herculaneum ruins with Vesuvius in distance #1
Coastal Herculaneum, 12 km (8 miles) southeast of Naples, and its farther-inland sister city, Pompeii, 11 km (7 miles) southeast of Herculaneum, are situated on opposite sides of Mt. Vesuvius, Europe's only active continental volcano. The ruins of Herculaneum are often overlooked in favor of Pompeii when in fact the former is better preserved and easier to visit due to its compactness. The population of ancient Herculaneum, at 4,000, was only one-fifth that of its more famous but less exclusive counterpart.
Both middle-class Pompeii and more-upper-crust Herculaneum were destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in A. D. 79. However, Pompeii was covered with 2.5 meters (8 feet) of pumice and ash while Herculaneum was buried under almost 20 meters (65 feet) of fiery mud. The result was that organic matter such as wood later rotted away in Pompeii but was preserved in Herculaneum until excavations began there in the early eighteenth century. Also, Herculaneum is less of a ruin than Pompeii because the weight of the volcanic ash caused Pompeii's rooftops to collapse while the thick, 160-km-per-hour (100-mile-per-hour) pyroclastic flow which descended from Vesuvius and quickly entombed Herculaneum simply sealed up the town without causing too much structural damage to its buildings.
Today the partially-excavated site of Herculaneum is only 25 minutes from Naples and 45 minutes from Sorrento on the Circumvesuviana commuter train line. The excavated ruins lie just eight blocks from the Ercolano train station. On one side of a city street in Ercolano are modern dwellings while on the other side there is huge hole several stories deep with well-preserved villas and other buildings at the bottom.
The remarkable structures which have been uncovered at Herculaneum include the House of Neptune and Amphitrite with an atrium featuring a mosaic of Neptune and Amphitrite and another with a hunting scene. The Villa dei Papiri, which contains hundreds of papiri, was constructed by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. The town also contained a tavern and a fast food outlet plus baths, a gymnasium and even an underground theatre.
Excavations in 1981 on the arched boat storehouses situated on the port side of the town revealed some 300 skeletons of unfortunate Herculaneum inhabitants who died instantly from extreme heat while sleeping there overnight, hoping to escape by sea the following day. While these corpses are not on display on the site, a cluster of ten was removed to the national museum of archeology in Naples.
For a different perspective on the ruins and vistas over the Bay of Naples, it is possible to reach the 1,281-meter (4,201-foot) summit of nearby Mt. Vesuvius which, by the way, has not erupted since 1944. Transportation is provided by.Vesuvio Express (vesuvioexpress.it) small vans from the Ercolano Scavi station on the Circumvesuviana train line and by Vesuviana Moblita buses from Pompeii. From the parking lot where the road dead ends high up on the mountain it is only a half-hour walk to the top.
Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Sorrento
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Gartenreich Wörlitz: Insel mit künstlichem Vulkan + Villa Hamilton (park with artificial volcano)
Impressions of the Island of Stone, which Count Franz of Anhalt-Dessau had been erected from 1788 to 1794: including the only artificial (and functioning) volcano in Europe and Villa Hamilton in Italian style with ancient interior. On the occasion of the exhibition Foreign world very close - Pompeji and Herculaneum in the garden realm of Dessau-Wörlitz from 21.04.2012 to 26.08.2012 at Schloss Wörlitz near Dessau... read more in German:
Impressionen von der Insel Stein, die Fürst Franz von Anhalt-Dessau 1788 - 1794 anlegen ließ: samt künstlichem Vulkan und Villa Hamilton im italienischen Stil mit antikisierender Innen-Ausstattung. Aus Anlass der Ausstellung Fremde Welt ganz nah - Pompeji und Herculaneum im Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz vom 21.04.2012 - 26.08.2012 in Schloss Wörlitz bei Dessau.
In Sachsen-Anhalt begann die deutsche Rezeption der Ausgrabung von Pompeji. Das zeigt eine prachtvolle Ausstellung im Landesmuseum von Halle -- und der einzige künstliche Vulkan Europas im Gartenreich von Dessau-Wörlitz.
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Pompeii: Rebirth of a City
Archaeology, as we understand it, didn't exist in 1758 when Johann Joachim Winckelmann made his way from the royal library in Dresden, Germany, to visit another private collection. He wanted to see the King of Naples's museum of statues, salvaged from crude digs at the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 1700 years after their destruction in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The king's guards refused him entry. But Winckelmann persevered, sneaking into the museum and the excavation sites, until he published an illicit catalogue of the finds that took the civilized world by storm, sparking a new interest in, and understanding of, the classical world. At last Winckelmann's life's work was recognized, but he had to fight to the end of his life for the ideal of scientifically accurate and responsible archaeology. In the 21st century, Andrew Wallace Hadrill directs excavations at the two lost cities. He is no stranger to controversy, such as: how to save the greatest unexplored library of the ancient world, at the Villa dei Papiri, threatened by flooding and the ever-present risk of a further eruption. This film tours the lost cities (including Pompeii's famous red-light district) with Andrew Wallace Hadrill, recounts the drama of Winckelmann's discoveries, and tells the story of the disaster itself, as witnessed by the unique human remains that give an almost minute-by-minute account of the day of destruction.
Herculaneum Part 2 of 2
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Pompei city
Not the ruins, but the central square in the centre of modern Pompei
Herculaneum, House of the Grand Portal
This house in Herculaneum lies immediately next to the Samnite House. It seems that at some point in the latter house's life, its peristyle garden area was sold or partitioned off to create another property. The House of the Grand or Great Portal was built there, complete with its extravagant entrance. The Samnite House's peristyle wasn't demolished but absorbed into the walls of the new house. The columns can be clearly seen today, embedded in the walls.
Mary Beard - Pompeii - Part 2 of 2
In this interview, Mary Beard discusses her first visit to to the Roman town, modern restoration of the site and more.
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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 comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.
Herculaneum is one of the few ancient cities to be preserved more or less intact, with no later accretions or modifications. Like its sister city, Pompeii, Herculaneum is famous for having been buried in lava and ash, along with Pompeii, Stabiae, Oplontis and Boscoreale, during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Unlike Pompeii, the heavy blanket of lava that covered Herculaneum carbonized and thereby preserved wood and other organic-based materials such as roofs, beds, doors, and food. Although most of the residents had evacuated the city in advance of the lava, the well-preserved skeletons of 300 people who perished near the seawall were discovered in 1997.
Although it was smaller than Pompeii, 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.
Ancient Graffiti - Precursor to Facebook
Ancient graffiti, etched into the walls of burial caves, tombs and quarries, have sent us a postcard from the past and given us a look into the minds of our ascendants. In a way, graffiti is like the Facebook of earlier eras. Arieh O'Sullivan goes on a quest for ancient graffiti in the Judean hills.