• Interview with our Chair

    Like everyone involved in the Vesuvius Challenge our chair, Robert Fowler, has been responding to numerous requests for interviews. Here’s a recent one with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.  [05/03/2024]

  • Plato’s Last Days

    The remains of Philodemus of Gadara’s History of the Academy  (the school founded by Plato) preserved in the Herculaneum Papyri have yielded fascinating new information about Plato’s last days. The text, whose […]

  • Grand Prize video now available

    The video of the Grand Prize ceremony in the Vesuvius Challenge is now available on the Getty Museum’s YouTube channel (here ). Great presentations by Kenneth Lapatin, Federica Nicolardi, Brent Seales […]