Rare Ancient Wooden Throne Found in Herculaneum (Buried by Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius)

Yahoo! News (Reuters) ^ | 12/4/2007 | n/a

[wildbill]

Yeah, but you guys were still middleclass. All we had was a fork in a tree over a crick (”the baths” we called it)

[Fresh Wind]

some treasures have been found from beneath where they once sat

That's not unusual. I have friends who seek out the locations of old outhouses and dig down looking for old bottles and other goodies. A good hole can yield thousands of dollars worth of sellable stuff, pre-1850 mostly. A bad hole yields, well, a lot of you know what.

[mysterio]

Wow! I have been interested in that site since I was a kid.

[Red Badger]

Yeah, but you guys were still middleclass

The backbone of America!...........

[bannie]

relief shows Attis, a life-death-rebirth deity

How appropriate!!!

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[NYer]

Just wow! Thanks for the ping!

Plan of Villa of the Papyri, drawn by Weber showing the ancient structures and the tunnels that were made in order to recover the works of art.

Villa of the Papyri under excavation

I have visited Pompei several times but never made it to Herculaneum. From a site dedicated to what has been found in that city:

Herculaneum. House of Carbonized Furniture

Herculaneum. Carbonized wooden shutters

[Calpernia]

::laughing!::

[ODC-GIRL]

Do you have the link for that site? I’d love to see more.

Thanks!