HERCULANEUM EXCAVATIONS
interesting’discoveries.
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(Received December 7, 8 a.m.) LONDON, December 6.
“The Times’s” correspondent at. Rome states: A hitherto unknown light oh ancient architecture was furnished by the excavations at Herculaneum, where it was revealed that the houses were two-storeyed, contrasting with the single storeyed dwellings at Pompeii. The upper rooms were reached by wooden staircases. Many rooms contained beautifully-carved wooden furniture, excellently preserved. Digging along the road leading seaward disclosed entrances to several patrician villas, but there was no trace of human remains. The inhabitants presumably escaped in boats. There were many artistic finds, including statues of Mercury, Diana, and Apollo; terracotta and coloured glass ornaments, a wooden press for crushing olives, which is identical with those used to-day. The authorities decided to leave everything where found to enable visitors <to envisage the daily lives of the inhabitants.
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