Word: herculaneum
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Pompeii was bombed chiefly in its most recently excavated areas; the older, archeologically more valuable sections of Pompeii were very slightly damaged. "Fortunately Herculaneum," wrote Sir Charles Woolley, "which from the scientific point of view is much more important than Pompeii, received no hurt...
...blue gulf. Beside it rose Vesuvius, breathing a plume of smoke. Around its feet clustered warships, steamers, merchantmen from Mediterranean ports. It was ancient. Virgil had lived in the city when he wrote his Georgics. Cicero had loafed among the villas. On its outskirts were the ancient suburbs of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which had been mummified 1,860 years ago by Vesuvius' erupting ash. It was a sight, a pile of palaces, churches, an opera house, university, museum, an aquarium where famous pale octopuses swam in tanks. It was slovenly and filthy and loud. Hoarse-voiced women dumped their...
...incalculable importance of such finds to literature is clearer to no one than to His Majesty. Success might bring the discovery of works as important as those of Caesar, Virgil, Cicero. Little boys may yet be whipped for not studying attentively books perhaps to be discovered at Herculaneum...
...came to inaugurate what may well prove the most important excavation of the present age. Steaming along the bay of Naples to Resina, the Savoia, cast anchor, and His Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr...
...there is any hope at all, of finding the final text of such Latin authorities as Livy and Varro, such hopes rest in Herculaneum alone. Pompeii will never give us any original documents, for the lava which buried it was porous and permitted the infiltration of water. This destroyed any papyri which may have existed. The volcanic substance which flowed over Herculaneum became so solidified that it may have preserved some few libraries...