06.06 Lab Questions Where is Herculaneum located? What happened to the city? Herculaneum is near Pompeii. The city was buried and frozen in time due to eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Why is Herculaneum important to archeology today? Herculaneum is important to archeology today because it is the easiest and most accurate society that archeologists have developed. What are some of the challenges that archeologists face when examining the city of Herculaneum? Some of the challenges that archeologists
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(a large open plaza surrounded by important buildings)‚ which was the civic‚ religious‚ and economic heart of the city. Pompeii‚ Italy is an excellent example of a city with a well preserved forum. In the city there were also many different styles of homes based on a certain class structure. The wealthy could own a house (domus) in the city as well as a country farmhouse (villa)‚ while the less fortunate lived in multi-story apartment buildings called insulae. However‚ that was just before Rome got
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released and got into my lungs.” When Diomedes was a few feet from the door‚ he collapsed to the ground along with 14 servants‚ and they had died.”(“The Buried City” pg.38). Daily life in Pompeii is similar to us because‚ of how they lived‚ archeologist findings‚ and how Rome was an advanced society. To begin‚ Pompeii was once really similar to us with how they lived. Most families were always on the run or doing chores around the house. They had little time for having a big meal‚ so they had to make
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HISTORY PROJECT NAME: POMPEII AND ROMAN CIVILIZATION The city of Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania‚ in the territory of the commune of Pompeii. The archaeological digs at the site extend to the street level of the 79 AD volcanic event; deeper digs in older parts of Pompeii and core samples of nearby drillings have exposed
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Winifred Mary Beard‚ The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found. Cambridge. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press‚ 2008. 360 pages. Maps‚ photographs‚ illustrations‚ bibliography‚ index. Born in England 1955‚ Winifred Mary Beard‚ after finishing an all-girls high school‚ attained both a Bachelors and Doctorate from King’s College‚ in Cambridge. She married historian Robin Cormack‚ with whom she had two children. Her many accolades include; Professor of Classics at Cambridge University
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In the vicinity‚ Hogwarts and the Black Pearl‚ emanating magic and mystery‚ stood adjacent to a fully functional roller coaster. High on a shelf above rested an entire fleet of spacecrafts‚ poised as if ready to launch into the heavens at any moment. I was particularly fond of imagining myself in one of those spaceships
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and deadly. It is‚ therefore‚ important to look back at prior eruptions and compare them to present eruptions in order to draw conclusions on what could be done to mitigate loss of life and destruction. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD on Pompeii and surrounding areas proved to be catastrophic because of the location of the volcano and especially since citizens were not aware that an active volcano was in their midst. By examining the series of events that took place at Mount Vesuvius in 79
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How much do the Pompeii and Mount St. Helens eruptions actually have in common? And how are they different? Well you would be surprised by how many similarities the two Volcanic eruptions have. But there are a lot of differences between the two eruptions as well. Both of these historic eruptions have a lot in common. For example‚ both were preceded by tremors and small earthquakes in the days leading up to both of the explosions. Another example is that both are the same type of volcano called a
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Tarquinius soon grew bored of his normal way of life in his hometown of Pompeii‚ Italy. Once Tarquinius turned 26‚ his desire to explore the rest of the world and do something significant with his life had become so uncontrollable that he
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Near the city of Pompeii is a massive volcano known as Mount Vesuvius (Tarshis). After being dormant for over 1‚000 years‚ Mount Vesuvius exploded in 79 A.D. (Tarshis). The eruption sent smoldering lava‚ rocks‚ and smoke flying for many miles‚ destroying anything in its path (Tarshis). The city of Pompeii was one of the volcano’s victims (Tarshis). Several feet of ashes buried Pompeii‚ and nobody survived the colossal‚ devastating explosion (Tarshis)
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