Vesuvius Challenge
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$33.5K awarded in July
Following the major announcement at the end of June—and the launch of a new phase of the Vesuvius Challenge with a prize pool of more than $2.1 million—the community responded with great enthusiasm!
The team reviewed 58 submissions for ope...
A New $1M Grand Prize for 2027
On June 25, in the history-rich rooms of the National Library of Naples, the Vesuvius Challenge team announced the first end-to-end complete virtual unwrapping and reading of a carbonized scroll from Herculaneum, PHerc. 1667 (Scroll 4).
Na...
The hard parts are getting clearer
Over the past few months, the Vesuvius Challenge team and community have continued to push the boundaries of what is possible.
Our papyrology team lead, Prof. Federica Nicolardi, is organizing a conference in Naples from June 22 to 26 on r...
We are cooking
How has the Vesuvius Challenge been going in recent months?
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Agents and models
Autoresearch
Inspired by this repository, Youssef set up a swarm of automated agents that perform rese...
~70% of PHerc. 172 is now digitally unwrapped
Over the past weeks, the Vesuvius Challenge team has digitally unwrapped the lower ~70% of PHerc. 172—also known online as Scroll 5—focusing on the ink-bearing region (excluding the blank margins).
Compared with earlier work, this is a maj...
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