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Why are the Herculaneum ruins a part of history like Pompeii?

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Like the nearby city of Pompeii, Herculaneum is famous as one of the few ancient cities to be preserved nearly intact, as the ash that blanketed the town protected it against looting and the elements.
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Answer: Pompeii is the ideal place to visit to understand how a city of the Roman Empire looked like, whereas Herculaneum is able to show us how people truly lived

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