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Landmark Europe archaeological

Herculaneum

600 BCE – 79 CE · 679 years

Roman town buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, with better-preserved organic materials and upper stories than Pompeii

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Herculaneum on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–700 BCE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 BCE–2026 CE)

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334 BCE – 323 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 600 BCE and 79 CE.

600 BCE Pompeii 600 BCE Marseille 600 BCE Epidaurus 595 BCE First Sacred War 590 BCE Lydian–Median War

And in the rest of the world

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