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Plato’s Last Days
The remains of Philodemus of Gadara’s History of the Academy (the school founded by Plato) preserved in the Herculaneum Papyri have yielded fascinating new information about Plato’s last days. The text, whose […]
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Grand Prize video now available
The video of the Grand Prize ceremony in the Vesuvius Challenge is now available on the Getty Museum’s YouTube channel (here ). Great presentations by Kenneth Lapatin, Federica Nicolardi, Brent Seales […]
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Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize announced
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 […]