• Honorary Fellowship for Friend of Herculaneum

    We are very pleased to announce that Mr Peter J Smith, one of the Friends of Herculaneum, has been made an Honorary Fellow by the British School of Rome in […]

  • Decisive breakthrough in reading Herculaneum papyri

    Within days of the first detection of a dozen clear letters in the interior of a scroll, Youssef Nader, entrant in the Vesuvius Challenge, has produced an even more astounding […]

  • Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!

    Many prizes have already been awarded for Ink Detection and Segmentation in the Vesuvius Challenge – upwards of $150,000! Follow-on prizes of $102,000 have been announced, and of course the grand prize […]