Herculaneum
Ancient city · Italy
- Abandoned
- 79
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.806, 14.348
Why it was abandoned
☢️ Disaster
Detected automatically from the text: Roman town destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
History
Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic flow in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.