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 and Nat Friedman, plus the prize-giving! [18/04/2024]

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 scanning and machine learning. The Herculaneum Society has been involved from the start. Read about it here on the Vesuvius Challenge website and also in the Guardian,  Nature  and Bloomberg . More prizes have been…

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 recognition of his outstanding support for their work. Further information here . [15/12/2023]