Herculaneum now reopened!
I belong to the Herculaneum Society and today received a news item from them that the archaeological site of Herculaneum reopened to the public January 18! I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the site in 2007 and I hope I'll have a chance to revisit it whenever I can travel again. So today's featured "Antiquities Alive" virtual exhibit is a collection of my images that I took at Herculaneum during about a three hour walkthrough (the site definitely deserves much more time than that) back in 2007. I've also included some artifacts from Herculaneum I photographed at Pompeii: The Exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle Washington, the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California, and The Louvre in Paris. Unfortunately, the day I visited Herculaneum the Villa dei Papiri was closed to the public. A Roman mosaic in the House of Neptune and Amphitrite, Herculaneum, Italy Theater mask in a bath complex in Herculaneum Statue of Heracles or Dionysus with a...