Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the scrolls!
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The 2000-year-old scroll discusses music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures.

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