Prof. Brent Seales and his team at the University of Kentucky have received $2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue their ground-breaking work on reading the Herculaneum scrolls non-invasively. For further information see https://uknow.uky.edu/research/brent-seales-awarded-prestigious-mellon-grant-poised-solve-2000-year-old-mystery.

In advance of the Herculaneum exhibition at the Getty starting 26 June, the famous "drunken satyr" statue has arrived. Learn more at http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/an-introduction-to-the-drunken-satyr-a-rare-roman-bronze-being-studied-and-conserved-at-the-getty-villa/.

Society Trustee Dr Gianluca Del Mastro has been appointed by the Italian Minister of Culture as President of the Fondazione Ente Ville Vesuviane, the organisation which manages all 122 historic villas in the region. The list includes the Villa Campolieto in Ercolano (where the Fondazione is based), the Villa Signorini and the Villa Aprile, a.k.a. the Miglio d’Oro hotel in Ercolano.