Over $320,000 in new prizes, and tens of meters of fresh ancient scroll. There's never been a better time to start the challenge! Details here: . Join the Discord! We'd love to help you get started.

Awarding the fantastic contributions from our community in April! Congratulations to the winners of this month's progress prizes! . Sestertius - Lachlan Parker, Will Stevens .Papyrus - Stephane Gouttebrouze , Yao Hsao. Newsletter - Open Prizes -

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We're excited to announce that we are awarding our inaugural $60,000 First Title Prize!!! . PHerc. 172 is officially On Vices. Congratulations to Marcel Roth and Micha Nowak for the historic achievement of recovering the first title ever found in a still-rolled Herculaneum

We’re looking for exceptional people to join our mission to read the Herculaneum Scrolls. Refer a successful hire — earn a $5,000 prize. We're hiring for the following roles: . Geometry & Computer Vision Applied Researchers. Platform Engineers. Synchrotron Tomography.

This month, we more than quadrupled the "virtual library" of Herculaneum scrolls, going from 5 to 23 total scans. This required an immense effort from our team and partners (some might even say Herculean!). If you've ever wondered what the process looks like, take a look at

We've awarded our first set of progress prizes for the new year! Congrats to the winners! Included as well are some updates from the past month, including a sneak peek at some information regarding our upcoming scans!

RT @UniofOxford: The @bodleianlibs and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a historic breakthrough in the endeavour to decipher text pres….

Want to be the first person in 2,000 years to read a word in an ancient scroll? Good news! We just released a ton more segmentations from Scroll 3! Head to or join the Discord to get started!

RT @CBSNews: Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough: Scientists digitally "unroll" 2,000-year-old scroll scorched by Mount Vesuvius. https://t.co….

RT @natfriedman: We found some words in Scroll 5, which is from the Bodleian Library collection of Herculaneum papyri. Still work to do to….

RT @WashTimes: In 2023, several tech executives sponsored the “Vesuvius Challenge” competition, offering cash rewards for efforts to deciph….

RT @BBCNews: First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years

We recently partnered with @bodleianlibs and @UniofOxford and are thrilled to share some exciting news!. Tons of new text, huge segmentations, and updates on the state of ink detection and segmentation: More to come soon!

RT @EJShotton: More exciting results from our collaboration with @scrollprize and @natfriedman.

We're awarding $30k and an awesome custom lego set to two of our year-end submissions. Congrats to @.waldkauz, @.Paul , and @.Bruniss! From hundreds of hours of human input down to less than 4. Incredible progress this year!. Newsletter:

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