Welcome to the Pompeii cast project website

We are so pleased to welcome you to the Pompeii Cast Project's website! Here you will find the latest news and research from the project, all of our resources including past lectures, podcasts, interviews, a full list of our publications and content specifically for teaching ancient Roman history and archaeology.

Over the course of the project we will use this blog to share our research, methodologies and field practices, as well as insights into the ethics of investigating human remains and stories from behind the scenes.
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While our team began this research in 2013, in 2017 the University of Sydney signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Parco Archeologico di Pompei that begins a new stage of innovative research on the plaster casts. You can read all about the development of the project and what this means for our future work in Dr Estelle Lazer's latest article for SOPHI Magazine (School of Philosophy and Historical Inquiry), available in hardcopy from the University of Sydney.