Photos Of Pompeii

An article on Kentucky.com on the University of Kentucky’s EDUCE project — Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration — and their efforts to use x-ray scans to read some of the carbonized scrolls from the Villa dei Papiri’s library. The [University of Kentucky] team spent a month last summer making numerous X-ray scans of two of the scrolls that are stored at the French National Academy in Paris. They hoped that computer … Read entire article »

We have updated the pages for all of IX.12.1 to 9 and also the Street Altar at IX.12.7.We have added more pictures to IX.12.6 The House of the Chaste Loversand IX.12.9 The House of the Painters at Work For the first time we have also been able to include room plans of these two houses and have labelled the pictures according to the plan. Jackie and Bob at pompeiiinpictures … Read entire article »

The Pompeii Project of the University of Helsinki (a.k.a Expeditio Pompeiana Universitatis Helsingiensis) will be working in Insula IX,3 along the Via Stabiana (next to the Central Baths) 3.-28.5.2010.Please do come visit us! … Read entire article »

Dear Pompeianists, I’m sure that this is something that you will have come across in your time as fellow researchers: how best to use CIL. For instance, I’m using a copy of CIL 4, Supplement 3 to include incriptions and references relevant to my research, but my university’s copies are ages old as it dates from the turn of the nineteeth to twentieth century. Of course, there will have been more entries made since this version was … Read entire article »

Dear fellow bloggers: I’m posting this in the hope that someone might have a copy of R. Gulino’s 1987 work Implicationsof the spatial arrangements of tabernae at Pompeii, Region One. Some time ago I requested this work by interlibrary loan in Britain and it came all the way from America. I require some info from the work, specifically two pages (13 & 14). I would be extremely grateful if anyone might scan the pages for … Read entire article »

In January Eric Poehler posted a request to locate the sewer exit to the south of the Porta Marina. We have taken this long distance shot from the exit from the site below the Porta Marina. It is located on the south side of the Porta Marina in the city wall below the stairs leading to the Garden/ Lararia of the Pompeianisti. We tried to take a closer picture but were refused access on two occasions. We … Read entire article »

Press release announcing new WiFi Spot at the archaeological site of Herculaneum and presentation of the children’s guidebook to site:’Living Ercolano’ C O M U N I C A T O S T A M P A Lunedì 26 Aprile – ore 12,30Nuovo ingresso Scavi di Ercolano Il Sindaco di Ercolano dott. Vincenzo Strazzullo e il Direttore degli Scavi di Ercolano, dott.ssa Maria Paola Guidobaldi, presenteranno il nuovo WIFI SPOT gratuito e la guida per ragazzi … Read entire article »

A new BAR International Series volume has a few papers on Pompeii that may be of interest: BAR S2079 2010: Making History Interactive. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). Proceedings of the 37th International Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America, March 22-26, 2009 edited by Bernard Frischer, Jane Webb Crawford and David Koller. ISBN 9781407305561. £60.00. ix+408 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs; with CD. Including: Precision Recording of Pompeian Standing … Read entire article »

Last night, Monday April 19, our ticket and our opponents were the at the GSA debate.From 7.30 PM until 9.30 PM we were in Know 112 answering to questions, with the cameras of SA TV (the TV channel managed by the Undergraduate Student Association) there to record the event.The candidates running for the same office were given the same 4 questions: they had 2 minutes and 30 seconds to answer each of them, and … Read entire article »