"Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the scrolls!"
Quoted from Tom Scott's newsletter
ancient scrolls that were buried in the volcanic ash of Vesuvius have been read, thanks to a million-dollar Vesuvius Challenge prize. These scrolls can't be opened without damaging them: but modern CT scanning and AI techniques mean that, for the first time, the words on them have been revealed anyway
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