• Q&A on Herculaneum papyri

    As part of the Vesuvius Challenge an online Q&A session with world-leading papyrologists was held on 25 May. You can watch it now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gielO5WHdu4 . For the latest on the Vesuvius […]

  • Vesuvius challenge prize now $1,000,000!

    The prize money for the Vesuvius Challenge to decipher the Herculaneum Scrolls has now been increased to $1 million! Read about the challenge here . [26/03/2023]

  • A lost work on the successors of Alexander the Great

    Professor Richard Janko of the American Friends of Herculaneum has been working on a Herculaneum papyrus containing an account of the successors of Alexander the Great. Click here for a report in […]