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A particular fascination, and one both beautiful and gruesome, is the semi-ruined church whose floor has been partly excavated leaving tombs with bones and skulls exposed.
Rediscovered by well-diggers in the 18th century, the town is still being excavated, a delicate business as much of it is covered by the modern city of Ercolano.
The last Minoan settlement to be excavated, it did not give up its secrets until the 1960s and revealed a wealth of undisturbed artifacts adding greatly to knowledge about this enigmatic people.
In the late 1980s, a team of Italian and Israeli archaeologists excavated a perfume factory, which dates back to Cleopatra's reign, 30 miles south of the Dead Sea.
What cannot be seen is the 51 km (32 miles) of tunnels that were excavated during World War II, and it is from these that General Eisenhower conducted the Allied invasion of North Africa.