Talk:Herculaneum
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Cleanup
I marked this for a cleanup because the images surrounding 'skeletal remains' cover up some of the text making it unreadable, and I'm not sure how to fix it. --Lord Pheasant 06:39, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Myth?
The sub-section Myth recounts a familiar episode in the western wanderings of Hercules, but applies it, as a founding myth, to Herculaneum. That Herculaneum is named to honor Hercules is patent, but isn't this "founding myth" an unwarranted invention?--Wetman 20:52, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Herculaneum is also the name of a town in the state of Missouri, USA
It is about 30 miles south of St. Louis off of Interstate 55.
- And ironicly they have problems with lead there too.
Distance from sea
Herculanuem used to be a seaside holiday town for patricians, how far is it from the sea today? It is also on a lower level than modern buildings around it.
Nat Geo photo of skeleton
Isn't this a copy-righted pic from Nat geo? I think it was on the cover of the May 1984 National Geographic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SGW999 (talk • contribs) 20:11, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Skletal remains
I won't even go into capitalization inconsistencies, but this section needs revamped. The references are done wrong, and "for example" should not be seen in an encyclopedia article. Sleepsong (talk) 19:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Merger with Pompeii main article?
This entire article should be merged with Pompeii. It's irrelevant that this town was *technically* distinct. In the same way that news reports of things in Scarborough are classified as "Toronto", so should this article be considered "Pompeii". And the photo of the ring lady is a quintessentially "Pompeii" shot; that's in every Pompeii history book I've read.
No one ever heard of Herculaneum, and it's absurd to make a distinction.
herculaneum
Herculaneum (in modern Italian Ercolano) is the ruins of an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows in 79 AD, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano, Italy. Its ruins can be found at the co-ordinates 40°48′21″N 14°20′51″E, in the Italian region of Campania in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius.
It is most famous for having been lost, along with Pompeii, Stabiae and Oplontis, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius beginning on August 24, 79 AD, which buried them in superheated pyroclastic material that has solidified into volcanic tuff. It also became famous as the source of the first Roman skeletal and physical remains available for study that were located by science, for the Romans almost universally burned their dead. Since the discovery of bones in 1981, some 150 skeletons have been found, most along the sea shore — the town itself, being effectively evacuated. Herculaneum was a smaller town with a wealthier population than Pompeii at the time of their destruction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.30.82.120 (talk) 14:09, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Date of the AD 79 eruption
Article in English: G.Rolandi et al. The 79 AD eruption of Somma: The relationship between the date of the eruption and the southeast tephra dispersion. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 169 (2007). From its Abstract:
... New high level wind data collected at the weather stations of the Aereonautica Militare data centres at Pratica di Mare (Rome) and Brindisi have been compiled to characterize the prevailing wind condition in the Somma-Vesuvius region. The common north-easterly dispersal directions of the Plinian eruptions are consistent with the distribution of ash by high-altitude winds from October to June. In contrast, the south-easterly trend of the AD 79 products appears to be anomalous, because the eruption is conventionally believed to have occurred on the 24th of August, when its southeast dispersive trend falls in a transitional period from the Summer to Autumnal wind regimes. In fact, the AD 79 tephra dispersive direction towards the southeast is not in agreement with the June–August high-altitude wind directions that are toward the west. This poses serious doubt about the date of the eruption and the mismatch raises the hypothesis that the eruption occurred in the Autumnal climatic period, when high-altitude winds were also blowing towards the southeast. New archaeological findings presented in this study definitively place the date of eruption in the Autumn, in good agreement with the prevailing high-altitude wind directions above Somma-Vesuvius.
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