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 ...

The contents of this scroll have been unknown for the last 2,000 years. Now, the scroll is thought to be part of an influential multivolume work, titled On Vices , by the Epicurean philosopher ...

Can technology unravel the secrets sealed by Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago? 13:22 Three researchers this week won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll ...

Using AI and computer tomography, researchers have pulled one word from the indiscernible 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls, which were burned in the Vesuvius eruption.

The characters πορφύραc, ancient Greek for “purple,” were extracted from a Herculaneum scroll carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

The scroll that the team at the Bodleian Libraries recently unfurled is assumed to be on the same subject. "I just love that connection with whoever collected them, whoever wrote them, whoever ...

One of the first words to be translated in the scanned scroll was the ancient Greek διατροπή, meaning “disgust.” Vesuvius Challenge Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.