Last week the team at the University of Kentucky, who have been working on the carbonised papyri scrolls from Herculaneum, announced a new initiative to help decipher the texts. Professor Brent Seales, a computer scientist, has been working for a number of years developing methods for reading ancient texts that are otherwise, for whatever reason, … Continue reading Unwrapping the Past| Pompeian Connections
Blurb: Felix is a cunning thief. Loren is a temple attendant. Thrown together, the boys have to piece together their fates to make it out of a burning… Read more New Book Release: Vesuvius by Cass Biehn →| Jonathan Pongratz
Two reviews of Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius have come out, one by Margot Neger in BMCR, and one by Paolo Bernardini in La Provincia di Como (here is the PDF and a translation). I should note …| [quem dixere chaos]
Two talks for the Herculaneum Society, based at Oxford, 26 February 2022, now on YouTube: Professor Pedar Foss, DePauw University, on “Ashy Tuesday-Wednesday: The Date and Sequence of the AD …| [quem dixere chaos]
20-min. lecture from 6 January 2022, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting. All details and data to be published in March 2022: Three clarifications/corrections: 1) @ 3:40, when I say …| [quem dixere chaos]
Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius (Routledge, March 2022) is in press. Here is how to order for your library at a 20% discount. My blog posts about the Vesuvius eruption are well obsolete, but I w…| [quem dixere chaos]