Links
Brian Barron reports from
Herculaneum on the Villa of the Papyri (BBC News, 12 August 2002;
Real Media only)
Herculaneum and the Villa of the Papyri: NPR's Sylvia
Poggioli reports (21 October 1997)
Out of the Ashes: website accompanying the award-winning documentary on Herculaneum
The Antiquities Discovered at Herculaneum (Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte): a high-quality digital reproduction of the richly illustrated nine-volume catalogue published from 1755 to 1792. The website includes a valuable essay on the discovery of Herculaneum by Masanori Aoyagi and Umberto Pappalardo.
Herculaneum: the story of the eighteenth-century excavations (from the University of Cambridge)
Herculaneum: Destruction and Rediscovery (www.romanherculaneum.com): an illustrated overview of the history and remains of the site
Philodemus project: an illustrated introduction to the Herculaneum papyri
New light on ancient scrolls: on the imaging technology developed in the last few years for reading the papyri
New technology unlocks ancient texts: radio feature on
multi-spectral imaging (NPR, 20 April 2005)
Virtual tour of Herculaneum. See also this site (less comprehensive).
Tourist information: includes an image gallery. Advance registration is required for the Villa dei Papiri.
The Herculaneum Conservation Project
Herculaneum image gallery (150 photographs)
Mount Vesuvius from NASA's Earth Observatory
CISPE (Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi ‘Marcello Gigante’- Italian only at present)
Herculaneum Papyrus Project at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project at Oxford
Rinascimento virtuale (palimpsests: in English)
The Archimedes Palimpsest Project
Aristarchos: free software for resolving the journal abbreviations used by archaeologists
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
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