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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Herculaneum was destroyed by a pyroclastic flow killing all remaining inhabitants due to the intense heat (500°C). It was buried by successive flows and ash to a depth of up to 25m.
Because of the initial intense heat and the subsequent burial, Herculaneum is one of the few places where the wooden interiors and furniture of roman houses has been preserved intact (although carbonised). There are household shrines, beds, screens, balconies, doors all preserved so that the finest of detail can still be seen.
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I believe that fresco's on the walls have also been preserved to a degree. So we even have an idea what the Romans did for the equivalent of wallpaper. And they've been able to pick out enough details from contemporary documents from back then to be able to point to at least one building and identify it as a house of ill repute. Sort of the Roman equivalent of the red light district.
