Read the Herculaneum scrolls, carbonised by Vesuvius in 79 AD, without opening them. In June 2026 a whole scroll (PHerc. 1667) was unwrapped and read virtually for the first time. A $1 million grand prize goes to fully unrolling and making readable another complete scroll with no more than eight hours of human input, by 25 June 2027.
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Read the Herculaneum scrolls, carbonised by Vesuvius in 79 AD, without opening them. In June 2026 a whole scroll (PHerc. 1667) was unwrapped and read virtually for the first time. A $1 million grand prize goes to fully unrolling and making readable another complete scroll with no more than eight hours of human input, by 25 June 2027.
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