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Joe Steinbring

Ercolano

Excavated Roman buildings and arched vaults in a deep pit, a modern town and a volcano beyond.
The ruins of Herculaneum, below the modern town, with Vesuvius behind.2022 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring
Static offline map showing Ercolano in Italy with a location pin.

On March 21, 2022, my Mom and I spent the middle of the day in the ruins of Herculaneum, the Roman town that Vesuvius buried in AD 79, which lies below the streets of modern Ercolano. We looked over it from the path along the top of the excavation, then went down to the arches on the old shoreline and walked its streets and houses.

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  • A row of arched vaults with wooden gates above flat volcanic rock and pools of still water.

    The arches on the old shoreline, where the remains of some 300 people who fled the eruption were found.

    2022 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • A street of large worn paving stones between old houses, two visitors walking past.

    Cardo IV, one of the Roman streets of Herculaneum.

    2022 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • A high-walled Roman room with dark doorways, fragments of red plaster and a carved marble table.

    The atrium of the House of the Wooden Partition, its charred wooden screen still standing at the back.

    2022 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

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