AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Fortune shines on Herculaneum ruins.
ROME, Aug. 8. - British and Italian archaeologists are close to securing a $ 100 million windfall from a Californian foundation funded by the heir to the Hewlett Packard electronics fortune to save and restore the lost magnificence" of the ruins at Herculaneum.
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, director of the British School at Rome, said the impending donation was a gift from the gods that would enable archaeologists to rescue a once-thriving Roman town that had received less attention than Pompeii but contained equally priceless treasures. Like Pompeii, Herculaneum was overwhelmed by an eruption of Vesuvius in the first century AD.
"This is a very exciting potential …
-
- British Museum to Showcase Relics from Pompeii and Herculaneum
-
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
February 24, 2013
700+ words
-
- Resurrecting Pompeii: a new exhibition brings the doomed residents of Pompeii...
-
Magazine article from: Smithsonian
Stewart, Doug
February 1, 2006
700+ words
-
- Pompeii and Herculaneum.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
-
Magazine article from: School Library Journal
Ray, Sally
June 1, 2009
700+ words
-
- Herculaneum: Past and Future.(Brief article)(Book review)
-
Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly
April 4, 2011
700+ words
-
- Herculaneum Excavation Resumes.(Italy)(Brief Article)
-
Magazine article from: American Libraries
October 1, 1999
700+ words
