This year the Society celebrates its twentieth year since foundation. We’ve done a lot! Here’s a list:  Join us and help us do even more for the great World Heritage Site of Herculaneum! [09/09/2024]

Like everyone involved in the Vesuvius Challenge our chair, Robert Fowler, has been responding to numerous requests for interviews. Here’s a recent one with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.  [05/03/2024]

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 legibility has been dramatically improved by the latest scanning techniques, reveals that Plato was buried in the Academy’s garden, that he received a ‘Chaldean visitor’ during…