Professor Richard Janko, University of Michigan and trustee of the American Friends of Herculaneum, will deliver the Autumn Lecture of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies on “Deciphering the Herculaneum Papyri”. The event takes place Thursday 20 November, 6pm in Room G7, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. No booking is required, […]

Belvedere floor, Villa of the Papyri This conference offers insights from leading international researchers on Herculaneum, which like Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, but survived in a better state of preservation than its neighbour, and uniquely yielded up, in the form of hundreds of charred papyrus scrolls, the only […]

The Society is very pleased to invite you to hear a talk by Prof. Alison Cooley on “Tales from the tunnels: the early years of Bourbon excavation at Herculaneum,” presenting research from her forthcoming book on Herculaneum. The talk will take place on 9 November 2024, 3:30 p.m. in the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, […]