Vesuvius Challenge

Another $50,000 First Letters Prize has been awarded! Congratulations to Liam Warner & Nicola Bodill for their work revealing ink and recovering readable text from unopened papyrus roll PHerc. 306B!
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Vesuvius Challenge just awarded another $40K in prizes this month, for progress across virtual unwrapping and ink detection, bringing us closer to reading the rest of the Herculaneum Papyri
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$50K First Letters Prize awarded to Erwin Nieuwlaar for finding text in PHerc 343! This is the first time in nearly 2000 years that anyone has read text in this rolled scroll. Our papyrologists reckon it’s part of the expression πᾶ̣ν τ̣ὸ γιν̣όμ̣ε̣[νον, “everything that happens/is generated”

WOW! Letters found in PHerc. 1447, a GRAND PRIZE eligible scroll.

This means ONE thing: the $1M Grand Prize pool is now a LOW HANGING FRUIT!

Nothing is impossible in the AI era, join our Discord and be the one to win the race. Only 270 days left!

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Want $50K for discovering the first letters in an ancient papyrus scroll? We've published a new article that walks you through one possible way to win our First Letters Prize
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