The excavations searching for the ancient Herculaneum buried by the eruption of 79 AD were started in 1738, but the fame of the city emerging from the mud was soon supplanted by that of Pompeii which is just about 20 kilometers away.
Inside the archaeological park, Villa of the Papyri is of huge interest (there were found over a thousand papyri kept today in the Herculaneum Papyri section of the National Library of Naples), belonged to Lucio Calpurnio Pisone, father of Calpurnia, Julius Caesar’s wife. Life in the Pisoni villa as in the rest of the city of Herculaneum and in the nearby Pompeii before the eruption that would have erased them from history for almost seventeen centuries is virtually reproduced at the MAV, the Virtual Archaeological Museum.
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