Herculaneum - buried in mud

Herculaneum. Not as publicized as Pompeii, but just as devastated. Here, mud flowed instead of ash covered.

See www.roman-empire.net/articles/article-011.

The town was buried in the same cataclysm as buried Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius did the damage. See volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_vesuvius. The eruption was at the same time as affected Pompeii.

The town of Herculaneum is near Naples, and is so far below street level that there are walkways, rather than walk-on streets for visitors. There is an elevated series of pathways, looking down. This gives a broad sense of the large size of the city, and an overview.

In Pompeii, you are walking right in it.

Herculaneum is still being excavated, as is Pompeii.