The most widespread preconception, one that sees the entire period of Bourbon archaeology at Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae as a time of primitive and brutal techniques that only generated errors and destruction. Partly it was so — this is evident, especially in the first phase. But, on the other hand, we cannot deny that the story of Vesuvian archaeology in the 18th century is also the history of the progressive establishment of a technique and of a working method which departed from previous practice and which slowly began to take shape both through the talent and vision of figures such as Karl Weber and Francesco La Vega, and for the good sense of the Neapolitan court, which had the great merit of knowing how to revise its approach to antiquities, from an initial vision tied to the antiquarian tradition of the humanistic approach to a more rigorous approach that laid the foundation for the birth of the future archaeological discipline. In fact, it marks the beginning of a serious interest in the Roman past, the recovery of the Roman past, and the accurate recovery of the Roman past. The frescoes which were “stolen” from the walls of Stabiae in the 18th century are still some of the best preserved. The plans done under extremely difficult circumstances by Karl Weber are some of the best ever done, and the records which they left have allowed scholars in the last decades to trace the actual preserved remains with their original locations.