Vulcano
Vulcano
The island of Vulcano,
in the Tyrrhenean Sea a short distance north of Sicily,
is one of Italy's active volcanos.
Of those,
it's the one that the most practical and safe
to ascend on your own.
Plus, it's a very pleasant place to relax!
Where Next In Italy?
( 🚧 = under construction )
In the late 1990s into the early 2000s I worked on a project to
scan cuneiform tablets
to archive and share 3-D data sets,
providing enhanced visualization to assist reading them.
Localized histogram equalization
to emphasize small-scale 3-D shapes in range maps, and so on.
I worked on the project with Gordon Young,
who was Purdue University's only professor
of archaeology.
Gordon was really smart,
he could read both Sumerian and Akkadian,
and at least some of other ancient languages
written in the cuneiform script.
He told me to go to Italy,
"The further south, the better."
Gordon was right.
Yes, you will very likely arrive in Rome,
but Italy has domestic flights and a fantastic train system
that runs overnight sleepers all the way to
Palermo and Siracusa, near the western and southern corners
of Sicily.
So, these pages are grouped into a south-first order,
as they should be.