Synonyms for herculaneum
ˌhɜr kyəˈleɪ ni əmher·cu·la·neum

Princeton's WordNet

1. Herculaneumnoun

   ancient city; now destroyed

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1. Juergen Hammerstaedt:

   There needs to be much work before one can virtually unroll carbonized papyrus because one will have to develop a digital method that will allow us to follow the layers, but in the 260 years of Herculaneum papyrology it is certainly a remarkable year.

2. Brent Seales:

   The library at Herculaneum was the only library that survived from antiquity and because of that the material inside is extremely valuable, texts from the ancient world are rare and precious, and they simply cannot be revealed through any other known process.