PHOTO: Ruins of the House of the Wooden Partition at Herculaneum, Italy

Ruins of the House of the Wooden Partition at Herculaneum, Italy

House of the Wooden Partition at the Roman ruins of Herculaneum, Italy is named for the series of folding panels that closed off the atrium from the main living area. Decoratively carved, with metal rings and supports for hanging oil-lamps, the doors were instantly turned to charcoal when super-heated mud from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD flowed into the city, filling every nook and cranny. Today they are encased within two upright plexiglass sheets at the end of the largest room, which features a mosaic floor with geometric black and white pattern and extensive frescoes on the walls.

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