Reading up on Vesuvius Challenge
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- Vesuvius Challenge
Researchers launched the Vesuvius Challenge, offering prizes to AI teams that successfully read charred Herculaneum scrolls using machine‑learning techniques for today.
- An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Using X-ray scanning and machine learning, the Vesuvius Challenge team virtually unwrapped and read the first complete Herculaneum scroll (PHerc. 1667) without physically opening it.