• $60,000 First Title Prize Awarded

    A prize of $60,000 has been awarded by the Vesuvius Challenge to Marcel Roth and Micha Nowak who successfully read the end-title of Herculaneum Papyrus 172. Ancient scrolls normally had […]

  • 20 more scrolls scanned!

    Last week an astonishing 20 Herculaneum scrolls were scanned at the Diamond Light Source facility near Oxford. Years of work and intensive collaboration have led to this moment. We can […]

  • Herculaneum 3D scan

    A fantastic new tool for viewing the site and its buildings – not virtual reconstructions, but extremely high-density, sophisticated 3D scans which include the technical data for study purposes and […]