Herculaneum
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Herculaneum was a Roman town buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Modern estimates of its population at the time of its destruction put the number of inhabitants at 4,000–5,000.[1]
- ↑ Sigurdsson, Haraldur; Cashdollar, Stanford; and Sparkes, Stephen R. J. (1982). "The Eruption of Vesuvius in A. D. 79: Reconstruction from Historical and Volcanological Evidence", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 86, no. 1, p. 39.