36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture Taught by John R. Hale University of Louisville Ph.D. Cambridge University
On October 22, 1738, an engineer in the army of the Bourbon royal family in Naples had himself lowered down a well shaft to begin the first systematic study of an ancient wonder just then coming to light: the astonishingly intact ruins of the Roman city of Herculaneum, buried in the eruption of Vesuvius almost 1,700 years earlier. This trip down a well not only marks the beginning of Classical archaeology but also ...
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