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The Trellis House in Herculaneum was built almost entirely of opus craticium, a low-cost building technique with square wooden frames filled with crushed rocks called opus incertum. The upper floor of this house was intended for use by several...

The interior courtyard of the House of the Beautiful Courtyard in Herculaneum with a staircase and a wooden balcony connecting to four upstairs rooms.

View from the tablinum to the peristyle of the House of the Black Hall in Herculaneum.

The atrium of the Samnite House in Herculaneum has a gallery with Ionic columns and latticework fences made of stucco on three sides. The house, which dates from the 2nd century BCE, is one of the oldest buildings so far discovered in Herculaneum...

Red-figure pottery depicting Hercules who receives the poisoned robe with Nessus' blood. c. 430 BCE

The Central Baths at Herculaneum were laid out around the beginning of the 1st century CE and were divided into separate (larger) men's and (smaller) women facilities, each with their sequence of changing room (apodyterium), warm room (tepidarium...

Marine mosaic floor decorating the apodyterium (changing room) of the women's baths in Herculaneum. The Central Baths at Herculaneum were built around the beginning of the 1st century CE and were divided, as was then the common practice...

The interior of the so-called College of the Augustales in Herculaneum. The building has often been associated with the presence of the imperial cult in Herculaneum, but it might just as well be a meeting place for the town council, the local...

View of Cardo III at the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum, Italy. The site is divided into three parallel streets running north-south (Cardo III, IV, and V) which have upper and lower segments (superiore and inferiore).

The seal of Edward the Confessor, king of England from 1042 to 1066 CE. (Image taken from: Samuel R. Gardiner, A Student's History of England (1915), Longmans, Green & Co., vol. 1, p. 86.)