After lunch, we head over to Herculaneum. "Do you like gladiator
movies, Billy?"
A shot down into the main excavation area.
You can see the suspended ramp on the right, to keep the pressure off
of some of the more fragile diggings. In the background is a different
perspective on Vesuvius.
These boat shelter gates would have been on the waterfront pre-eruption.
These skeletons on people trying to escape with their belongings were
found there.
To show you the level of coverage: this ramp takes you from the current
street level, down fifteen meters to the previous water level.
Not sure what this picture is, or whether Kimberly was even ready for
it. That is the self-guided tour in her hand.
Herculaneum has much more well-preserved mosaics in quite a few of the
manor houses.
The antechamber of the public bath. Women to the left, men to the right.
More beautiful mosaic work.
Pompeii was mainly destroyed by ash and fire, but Herculaneum was mainly
destroyed by flooding and entombing in mud, so different materials are
preserved.