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What does Herculaneum mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) a city in Italy which was entirely destroyed by the same eruption of Vesuvius that also turned Pompeii into a ruin
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It is said that some of them were hardly inferior in form and finish to the exquisite vases found in Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Pompeii lies to the south-east from the mountain, and Herculaneum to the south-west.
By the railway we have passed through Herculaneum, and here we are at Pompeii.
Archaeology proper began with an interest in the Greeks and Romans and first developed in 18th-century Italy with the excavations of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The discovery of Pompeii followed, after an interval, the discovery of Herculaneum.
These paintings are most bountifully evident in villas at Pompeii and Herculaneum, although some prime examples have been found in and near Rome.

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