The Grand Prize has been awarded! $700,000 to the winning team in the Vesuvius Challenge for identifying continuous text from the interior of a still-rolled Herculaneum papyrus with the aid of CT […]

We are very pleased to announce that Mr Peter J Smith, one of the Friends of Herculaneum, has been made an Honorary Fellow by the British School of Rome in […]

Within days of the first detection of a dozen clear letters in the interior of a scroll, Youssef Nader, entrant in the Vesuvius Challenge, has produced an even more astounding […]