Excavation of Herculanium

Herculaneum is better than pompei in some respects, but the sights do have a different field. Herculanium gives you specific things to think about if you want a picture of roman life. The great thing about pompey is the excavations are so extensive. You've got an enormous range of stuff there. So i say all that as a sort of caution, never assume because it isn't there, that it wasn't there in antiquity. A very interesting example is is the decoration of the walls. It belongs to the same family the stuff that's bein done in herculaneum, but is terribly distinctive. There were local, local worship we