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1608 points by verditelabs | 353 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement page reporting that an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll has been virtually unrolled and read for the first time.
1287 points by amrrs | 200 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement of its 2023 Grand Prize winners, who made the first Herculaneum scroll readable; the 2000-year-old text discusses music, food, and pleasure.
1095 points by razin | 204 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement that a 21-year-old computer science student discovered the first word read inside an unopened Herculaneum scroll.