Supporting World Heritage at Herculaneum

Helpful Links and Information

Some of these links are in Italian but provide English translations of some pages. 

Herculaneum Society YouTube channel

Archaeological Park of Herculaneum   

CISPE  (Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi ‘Marcello Gigante’)

Images of Herculaneum Papyri in Naples

Online Resources on the Herculaneum Papyri

Other Vesuvian Sites

Online Catalogue of the Archive of the Office of the Papyri, National Library of Naples ; see also here

The American Friends of Herculaneum  – our affiliated organisation

The Vesuvius Challenge

The Herculaneum Conservation Project

Archaeological Park of Pompeii  

Virtual tour  of Herculaneum. See also this site  (less comprehensive).

Tourist Information  for Herculaneum 

More Information about Herculaneum: AD79

Tourist Information for Pompeii, Stabiae, Oplontis, Boscoreale

Mount Vesuvius  from NASA’s Earth Observatory

Herculaneum Project  at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project  at Oxford

The Digital Restoration Initiative , University of Kentucky (Prof. Brent Seales)

The Archimedes Palimpsest Project

The Getty Villa, Malibu, California  – modelled on the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum

Cambridge Architectural Research  – building risk mitigation consultants. EXPLORIS programme is looking at mitigation of volcanic eruptions, specifically Vesuvius and other European volcanoes.

Inscape  – Fine Art Tour Company

Oxford University Classics Faculty

Blogging Pompeii  – a blog set up by Joanne Berry (author of The Complete Pompeii) with the aim of sharing information for those with an interest in the Vesuvian area. All the latest news.

www.herculaneum.uk : copious photographs and plans of Herculaneum 

We hope these links will be useful. The Herculaneum Society does not vouch for the accuracy of information on other websites.