grand prize after reading more than 2,000 Greek letters from another Herculaneum scroll. That scroll is thought to have been written by the epicurean philosopher Philodemus. It "covered sources of ...

On Thursday, the Vesuvius Challenge announced during a press conference that the 21-year-old computer-science ... eventually detect a number of letters on the scroll. The word he discovered ...

This scroll, one of three at the University of Oxford ... Once detected, the ink is digitally enhanced, revealing the hidden letters. “It can see things on the scale of a few thousandths ...