Herculaneum

Herculaneum archaeological excavations have returned the remains of the ancient city of Herculaneum, buried under a blanket of ash, lava and mud during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., together with Pompei, Stabiae and Oplontis.
Discovered by chance during the excavations for the construction of a well in 1709, the archaeological investigations began in Herculaneum in 1738 to last until 1765; they were resumed in 1823, and broke down again in 1875, up to a systematic excavation sponsored by Amedeo Maiuri in 1927: most of the finds are stored at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, while the birth of the virtual archaeological museum occurred in 2008 where one shows the city before the Vesuvius ‘ eruption.