$50k First Letters Prize Awarded for PHerc 343(scrollprize.substack.com)
9 points by dcminter | 0 comments
Vesuvius Challenge Substack post announcing the award of a $50,000 First Letters Prize for reading text in Herculaneum scroll PHerc 343.
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time(scrollprize.org)
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.
Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll(scrollprize.org)
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.
First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student(scrollprize.org)
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.