In February 2024, the Vesuvius Challenge named Nebraska senior Luke Farritor as one of three co-winners of its $700,000 Grand Prize for digitally deciphering at least four passages of a 2,000-year-old ...

In detail, the trio targeted the Herculaneum papyri, a set of 800 Greek scrolls that were involved in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, leading the ancient Roman town Pompeii to be buried ...