Herculaneum, past, present & future . X X O u D < N oca. o S3u,Oui < oi< s CHAP. IV HISTORY OF SITE SINCE ERUPTION 129 passed he was ordered to move to Pompeii. Herculaneumwas not indeed finally deserted until 1779, but La Vegas work,was almost confined to underpinning the houses of Resina,filling up his predecessors tunnels, and completing the in-vestigation of the theatre, of which he made three plans,an elevation and three sections, in 1777. Plans and draw-ings were also prepared by Alcubierre, Bardet, and Weber,but they have mostly disappeared.^ One of La Vegas mostuseful works wa
Herculaneum, past, present & future . X X O u D < N oca. o S3u,Oui < oi< s CHAP. IV HISTORY OF SITE SINCE ERUPTION 129 passed he was ordered to move to Pompeii. Herculaneumwas not indeed finally deserted until 1779, but La Vegas work,was almost confined to underpinning the houses of Resina,filling up his predecessors tunnels, and completing the in-vestigation of the theatre, of which he made three plans,an elevation and three sections, in 1777. Plans and draw-ings were also prepared by Alcubierre, Bardet, and Weber,but they have mostly disappeared.^ One of La Vegas mostuseful works was the general plan of the city, It is sometimes stated ^ that much progress was made underJoseph Napoleon and Joachim Murat between 1806 and 1815,but their activity seems to have been confined to Pompeii. Itwas not till 1828 that the excavations of Herculaneum wereseriously resumed,^ in consequence of the accidental discoveryof an old tunnel under the Bisogno estate in the Vicolo diMare. They lasted with interruptions until 1855, wereresu
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