Rebecca Benefiel, professor of Classics at Washington and Lee (and Harvard Classics alumna, PhD '05) talks to The Atlantic about her work mapping and analyzing the graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

At the XV International Numismatic Congress in Taormina in September, Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins at the Harvard Art Museums and President of the International Numismatic Council (2009–2015), was presented with the Jeton de Vermeil of the French Numismatic Society. She and two graduate students also delivered papers: Rebecca Katz, PhD candidate in Ancient History, identified the hidden meanings of a coin of the Roman Republic, under the title “Muttonis Mutunus: Q. Titius and the Case of the Obverse Head (RRC 341/1)”; Katherine van Schaik, joint MD...