Reading the Unreadable: Recovering Lost Ancient Texts from Herculaneum

The press event "Reading the Unreadable: Recovering Lost Ancient Texts from Herculaneum" will take place on the 25th of June 2026, from 9.30 am to 11.30 am (Central European Summer Time), in the Reading Room of the "Vittorio Emanuele III" National Library of Naples. The event is part of the International Conference supported by the Vesuvius Challenge "The Eternal Library | The Herculaneum Papyri through the Centuries and the Digital Future".

This press event is a part of the CISPE Marcello Gigante International Conference supported by the Vesuvius Challenge (22-26 June 2026) ) and hosted at the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli “Vittorio Emanuele III".

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96oTlQm0KBw

Video Description:

• 9:30 – Conferenza stampa 
• 11:30 – Pausa caffè Presiede Brent Seales | University of Kentucky
• 12:15 – Sean Johnson | Vesuvius Challenge || Youssef Nader | Vesuvius Challenge : Resurrecting Ancient Scrolls: Advances in Ink Detection and Virtual Unwrapping 
• 13:00 – Pranzo Discute Gianluca Del Mastro | Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
• 14:15 – Marzia D’Angelo | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II || Alessia Lavorante | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II || Rossella Villa | Università degli Studi di Salerno : Presentation of New Results from Virtual Unwrapping, Part I Discute Jürgen Hammerstaedt | Universität zu Köln
• 15:00 – Maria Chiara Robustelli | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II || Claudio Vergara | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II : Presentation of New Results from Virtual Unwrapping, Part II