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not frozen; ledger unaudited", "compression": { "title": "Vesuvius Challenge", "lede": "is an open science research organization, launched in 2023 by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Brent Seales, that runs open prizes for reading the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls without unrolling them, by virtual unwrapping and machine-learning ink detection on scans (its site; Wikipedia; University of Kentucky; Revelation First record)." }, "sentences": [ { "n": 1, "para": 0, "text": "The Vesuvius Challenge (scrollprize.org; Scroll Prize, the Revelation First record's other name for it) describes itself as \"an open science research organization reading the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls without unrolling them\" (its home page), which the Revelation First record enters as \"an open research competition reading the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls without unrolling them\", its operator the organization in its own words (Revelation First record).", "claims": [ "F1", "RF-01", "RF-02", "RF-04", "RF-03" ] }, { "n": 2, "para": 0, "text": "Its account on X calls it \"a machine learning, geometry and computer vision competition to read the Herculaneum Papyri\" (@scrollprize); the University of Kentucky's release of 25 June 2026 says it made \"a long-standing scholarly problem into a global, open competition\" and has since \"become more than a competition\", a collaborative effort to recover a lost library, with a dedicated team that supports contestants (UK Pigman College of Engineering; UKNow).", "claims": [ "F29", "F14", "F40" ] }, { "n": 3, "para": 1, "text": "The record asks of every resource in its field \"What evidence does each resource hold on when and from what the New Testament writings were composed, and how do machines now read those texts?\", and places this one at two of its four intersections, AI and ancient texts and papyrology and textual discovery, its kinds of evidence machine reading and manuscript images (Revelation First record).", "claims": [ "RF-23", "RF-05", "RF-06" ] }, { "n": 4, "para": 1, "text": "By the record's reading its evidence can answer \"how much of an unopened carbonized scroll can now be read by machine\" and cannot answer \"anything on the New Testament: the Herculaneum library predates it and is not Christian\"; it is \"NOT a Christian or biblical corpus\" and \"NOT a finished edition\", and the record's worked question on machine dating names it for \"machine reading of unopened Herculaneum scrolls\" with the gap \"None of the four dates a New Testament papyrus or a composition; each dates or reads copies within its own corpus\" (Revelation First record).", "claims": [ "RF-14", "RF-15", "RF-20", "RF-25", "RF-26" ] }, { "n": 5, "para": 1, "text": "Where it meets the field's thesis, which the record states as a correction (\"Revelation First ≠ Revelation Early\": the priority thesis that \"the rest of the New Testament unfolds from the Apocalypse\"), the record's reading is \"None direct\": it shows machine reading recovering text from papyri that cannot be opened, \"the kind of result that would change what the papyrological record can contain\" (Revelation First record).", "claims": [ "RF-24", "RF-16" ] }, { "n": 6, "para": 2, "text": "The scrolls it reads are the Herculaneum papyri, more than 1,800 scrolls found in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri and carbonized when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius engulfed the villa in 79 AD, the parching turning them into \"compact and highly fragile blocks\" (Wikipedia, 'Herculaneum papyri').", "claims": [ "F19", "F21" ] }, { "n": 7, "para": 2, "text": "Its own page tells it as a story, \"Buried in 79 AD, now being revealed\": Vesuvius buried \"a villa and its library of papyrus scrolls under twenty meters of ash\", the scrolls carbonized \"but also preserved\", the library waiting underground intact (scrollprize.org); the record's texts are \"the carbonized papyrus scrolls of Herculaneum, buried in 79 AD\", its coverage Herculaneum before 79 AD (Revelation First record); more than 600 Herculaneum scrolls remain unopened (UKNow).", "claims": [ "F3", "F4", "RF-08", "RF-10", "F42" ] }, { "n": 8, "para": 3, "text": "Wikipedia gives its origin as an announcement in 2023 by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and computer scientist Brent Seales of a competition to \"decipher Herculaneum scrolls using 3D X-ray software\", with a $700,000 grand prize for four passages from two intact scrolls ('Herculaneum papyri'); its home page lists Friedman as \"Instigator, Director & Founding Sponsor\", Gross as \"Founding Sponsor\" and Seales as \"Principal Advisor\", its leads Paul Henderson, technical lead, and Federica Nicolardi, papyrology lead, with EduceLab as partner, and its sponsors' list opening with Nat Friedman ($2,750,000) and the Musk Foundation ($2,084,000) (scrollprize.org).", "claims": [ "F24", "F8", "F9", "F10" ] }, { "n": 9, "para": 3, "text": "The University of Kentucky sets the launch, in March 2023, on decades of work by Seales and the university's EduceLab, who showed that machine learning could detect ink hidden in X-ray scans of carbonized papyri, after which Seales joined Friedman and Gross \"to launch a $1 million global challenge\" and his team released software and thousands of 3D scans; its release calls Seales the challenge's \"co-founder\" (UK Pigman College of Engineering; UKNow).", "claims": [ "F15", "F16", "F43" ] }, { "n": 10, "para": 4, "text": "Its method, by the record's account, is virtual unwrapping and machine-learning ink detection on scans, advanced by open prizes, its unit a scroll scanned and virtually unwrapped with ink detected in the scan (Revelation First record), and the difficulty is the ink: Herculaneum ink is carbon-based and chemically \"extremely similar\" to the carbonized surface it is written on (Wikipedia); in 2019 Seales' team confirmed it invisible in micro-CT and trained a neural network on subtle patterns of ink presence (UK Pigman College of Engineering), after Seales had in 2018 demonstrated a readable virtual unrolling of a Herculaneum scroll with the particle accelerator Diamond Light Source, detecting ink that contained trace amounts of lead (Wikipedia).", "claims": [ "RF-09", "RF-07", "F22", "F17", "F23" ] }, { "n": 11, "para": 4, "text": "For PHerc. Paris 4, the archive records, \"ink is directly visible in the tomographic volume and segmentable in three dimensions rather than inferred from a surface fit\" (#1443, 2026-08-09); three video cards title the method \"AI decodes ancient Vesuvius scroll using x-rays\" (AI Honeycove), \"How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable\" (Smithsonian Magazine) and \"AI Reveals Text In Ancient Greek Scroll Destroyed in Vesuvius Eruption\" (The AI Daily Brief).", "claims": [ "D1443-02", "F46", "F45", "F44" ] }, { "n": 12, "para": 5, "text": "On 12 October 2023 it awarded $40,000 to Luke Farritor for the first word detected in an unopened scroll, porphyras, \"purple\", and on 5 February 2024 its 2023 Grand Prize of $700,000, with three $50,000 runner-up prizes, for revealing 5% of one scroll, believed a previously unknown text of Philodemus (Wikipedia); the University of Nebraska–Lincoln reports Farritor a co-winner of that prize (UNL card).", "claims": [ "F25", "F26", "F33" ] }, { "n": 13, "para": 6, "text": "In June 2026 the team announced PHerc. 1667, \"Scroll 4\", virtually unwrapped and read end to end, which a project preprint called the first complete virtual unwrapping and extended reading of a rolled Herculaneum papyrus; Wikipedia counts 22 columns of \"a Stoic philosophical treatise that may be attributable to Chrysippus\", and the title and author of PHerc. 139 read, Philodemus, On Gods, Book 8 ('Herculaneum papyri').", "claims": [ "F27", "F28" ] }, { "n": 14, "para": 6, "text": "The University of Kentucky's release of 25 June 2026 announces nearly 1.5 meters of text across 20 columns from PHerc. 1667, more than 70 columns from PHerc. 172 at the Bodleian, and new books of Philodemus, On Vices 1 and On Gods 8, as \"a historic breakthrough … revealing new texts, titles and authors unknown to history\" (UKNow), its timeline \"a scalable method for recovering complete texts from unopened scrolls\" (UK Pigman College of Engineering); the archive records the same result, announced 25 June 2026, about 1.5 m across 20 columns, by phase-contrast µCT on the ESRF BM18 beamline (#1443).", "claims": [ "F34", "F35", "F18", "D1443-01" ] }, { "n": 15, "para": 6, "text": "Its papyrologists read the treatise as concerned with ethics, arts and human behavior, likely Stoic, and Nicolardi holds the reading cautious because the collection is almost entirely Epicurean (UKNow); Smithsonian reports the surviving passages as examining \"ethics, knowledge and human nature\" (Smithsonian Magazine card); its prizes page has the titles of PHerc. 172 and PHerc. 139 recovered and Scroll 1's Epicurean prose still without author or title (scrollprize.org/prizes), and Wikipedia has all the surviving text of a single scroll recovered for the first time in 2026 while reading the scrolls stays \"extremely difficult\" and techniques \"are still being developed\" (Wikipedia).", "claims": [ "F38", "F13", "F55", "F20" ] }, { "n": 16, "para": 7, "text": "Federica Nicolardi: PHerc. 1667 \"was deemed completely unreadable when part of it was opened in the 1980s\" and \"was assigned a readability score of zero\", and now \"we can follow sustained arguments across multiple columns\" (UKNow); a video card titles the result \"We Can Finally Read a 2000-Year-Old Book That Nobody Can Open\" (MegalithHunter).", "claims": [ "F36", "F47" ] }, { "n": 17, "para": 7, "text": "The archive reads her statement as \"a claim about instruments, not objects\": \"Unreadable\" was a property of the available method, and the object was reclassified when the method changed, so that \"classifications of unreadability are claims about readers\", a proposition that \"transfers exactly\" to an archive whose founding injury is classification as out-of-scope (#1443, §2.4).", "claims": [ "D1443-04", "D1443-05", "R1443-06" ] }, { "n": 18, "para": 7, "text": "#1443 sets the result in a lineage from the recoveries of Electronic Beowulf and the Archimedes palimpsest, \"a century of the capture exceeding the eye, culminating here in the capture exceeding the object's own surface\" (its two sources marked as located, not yet read), and names it \"the optical-unconscious thesis stated as papyrological fact\", the reversal of the readability score \"the strongest empirical demonstration of Benjamin's claim ever produced\" (#1443, §2.4, §7.4).", "claims": [ "D1443-07", "O1443-10" ] }, { "n": 19, "para": 8, "text": "The field states the machine's part and the reader's: its papyrologists are essential both to making the machine-learning models and to interpreting the text, and the release says the focus is shifting from the engineers to \"the experienced papyrologists, classicists and historians\", Seales: \"Now we need experts who can read, edit and understand what they are saying\" (UKNow).", "claims": [ "F37", "F41" ] }, { "n": 20, "para": 8, "text": "The archive states the division the release model makes explicit, \"the machine recovers the surface; the papyrologist reads it\", with transcriptions attributed to named human readers, and what the method cannot do: \"Attribute, consent, or ask\"; it works, with Ithaca, \"on authors who cannot be consulted\" (#1443, §2.4, Part X).", "claims": [ "D1443-09", "D1443-03", "D1443-11" ] }, { "n": 21, "para": 9, "text": "Its stated limits are its own: \"We can trace a scroll's surface, but where sheets are crushed or torn it still needs human help\", and ink models \"trained on one rarely transfer to the next\" (scrollprize.org); the Grand Prize pipeline \"should be fully automated\", with up to 8 documented hours of human input tolerated (scrollprize.org/prizes); the record carries the first limit (Revelation First record).", "claims": [ "F5", "F6", "F50", "RF-13" ] }, { "n": 22, "para": 9, "text": "Its prizes page sets the bar against false readings: the larger an ink model's window, \"the easier it is for it to invent plausible letterforms instead of recovering real ink\", so a submission must show \"that the text is not hallucinated\"; a Technical Team reviews the method and an independent Papyrology Team the results; of the First Letters prizes, \"The review bar is deliberately high — we’d rather be slow than wrong\" (scrollprize.org/prizes).", "claims": [ "F52", "F53", "F54" ] }, { "n": 23, "para": 10, "text": "Its home page says \"we run a $2M competition, with prizes every month\" and offers \"the $1,000,000 Grand Prize\" and \"the $500,000 First Letters Prizes\" (scrollprize.org); its prizes page gives an open pool of $2,140,000, a Grand Prize deadline of 25 June 2027, \"$800,000 to the first team or individual to fully unroll and make readable a scroll\" with second to fourth places, \"$1,000,000 in total\", and First Letters prizes for at most 9 more scrolls, \"up to $450,000 in total\" (scrollprize.org/prizes), the two pages' First Letters figures standing as each gives them.", "claims": [ "F2", "F7", "F48", "F49", "F54" ] }, { "n": 24, "para": 10, "text": "The record gives the pool, \"open prize pool $2,140,000\", as of 2026-10-30, its lifecycle active with the Grand Prize deadline 25 June 2027, and as its evidence for the prize the prizes page's $800,000 (Revelation First record); prizes are at \"the sole discretion of Scroll Prize, Inc.\", and if no team meets the criteria by the deadline the teams that came closest may be awarded, without guarantee (scrollprize.org/prizes).", "claims": [ "RF-11", "RF-19", "RF-22", "F56" ] }, { "n": 25, "para": 11, "text": "Through the competition Seales' team released open-source software and 3D X-ray images of two intact scrolls and several fragments (UKNow); winners must open-source their code under a permissive licence and publish their training data under CC-BY-NC 4.0 (scrollprize.org/prizes); the site's content is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 unless otherwise specified (scrollprize.org), while the record gives its data access as open data and code on GitHub and Hugging Face with a Discord community, its licence \"not read\", and the licence of the data unchecked (Revelation First record).", "claims": [ "F39", "F51", "F12", "RF-17", "RF-18", "RF-21" ] }, { "n": 26, "para": 11, "text": "The archive reads the release of data, surfaces and transcriptions under Creative Commons, with code on GitHub, as the source of the result's standing: \"Credibility for an extraordinary claim was manufactured by making it checkable\" (#1443, §2.4).", "claims": [ "D1443-08" ] }, { "n": 27, "para": 12, "text": "Its home page news lists a $60,000 First Title Prize awarded (5 May) and first letters found in a new scroll (5 February), which the record gives as its findings (scrollprize.org; Revelation First record); on X it posted letters found in PHerc. 1447, a Grand Prize-eligible scroll, on 29 September (\"the $1M Grand Prize pool is now a LOW HANGING FRUIT! … Only 270 days left!\"), a $50K First Letters Prize to Erwin Nieuwlaar for text in PHerc 343 on 8 October, and another $40K of monthly prizes on 12 October (@scrollprize).", "claims": [ "F11", "RF-12", "F30", "F31", "F32" ] }, { "n": 28, "para": 13, "text": "At its name on 31 October 2026, Google's AI Overview held the challenge, its \"open science\", the scrolls buried in 79 CE, virtual unwrapping and ink detection being the record's, and carried no inline citation, its cards following the answer unattached; the registry's innocent reading is that it says what the challenge reads, how, what it has read and what it pays, from its own site and its press, with the founders named, no identifier and the challenge's own site the first card (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31).", "claims": [ "CAP-1-01", "CAP-1-05", "CAP-1-06", "CAP-1-09", "F1" ] }, { "n": 29, "para": 13, "text": "The registry sets the composition's \"$2 million total pool\" and \"$1,000,000 Grand Prize\" against the prizes page's $2,140,000 and $800,000, reading the $1M as the X card's, and its 22 columns against the UKNow card's 20, \"Neither figure is in the saved sources\"; its PER reader finds the founding date and the milestones in none of the saved pages, the prize terms (open-sourcing, CC-BY-NC data, the review bar) not carried, EduceLab absent, and \"competition\" for the self-described \"research organization\" following the record's kind (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31).", "claims": [ "CAP-1-02", "CAP-1-03", "CAP-1-11", "CAP-1-13", "CAP-1-14", "CAP-1-12", "F48", "F49", "F35" ] }, { "n": 30, "para": 13, "text": "Its analysis: \"The best-known machine-reading project in the field is composed as a success story with a round prize\"; the record's own page says what is posted and what still needs a person, and the composition \"takes the round number from a post on X and leaves the person out\", the challenge's limit unsaid; the record was built the day before and no card cites it (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31).", "claims": [ "CAP-1-07", "CAP-1-08", "CAP-1-04", "CAP-1-10", "F5" ] } ], "claims": { "F1": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Vesuvius Challenge is an open science research organization reading the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls without unrolling them.", "source": "B1", "source_label": "Vesuvius Challenge — Vesuvius Challenge — Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls with AI", "locus": "hero ¶3", "modality": "stipulation" }, "RF-01": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "Vesuvius Challenge", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator record: Vesuvius Challenge (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30, schema field census 1.0", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'vesuvius-challenge'].name", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "RF-02": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "[\"Scroll Prize\"]", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator record: Vesuvius Challenge (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30, schema field census 1.0", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'vesuvius-challenge'].aka", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "RF-04": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "an open research competition reading the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls without unrolling them", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator record: Vesuvius Challenge (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30, schema field census 1.0", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'vesuvius-challenge'].kind", "modality": "stipulation", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "RF-03": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "Vesuvius Challenge, which describes itself as an open science research organization", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator record: Vesuvius Challenge (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30, schema field census 1.0", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'vesuvius-challenge'].operator", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "F29": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The Vesuvius Challenge is a machine learning, geometry and computer vision competition to read the Herculaneum Papyri.", "source": "B5", "source_label": "X — Vesuvius Challenge (@scrollprize) / X", "locus": "profile", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F14": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Launched in 2023, the Vesuvius Challenge transformed a long-standing scholarly problem into a global, open competition — mobilizing researchers, engineers and citizen scientists to do what had never been done before: read the Herculaneum scrolls without physically opening them.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "University of Kentucky — Herculaneum | Pigman College of Engineering", "locus": "The Role of the Vesuvius Challenge ¶1 (the card's snippet)", "modality": "documented" }, "F40": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Today, the Vesuvius Challenge has a dedicated team of researchers and technical experts who support contestants with preconditioned data, new tools and improved access to the scroll scans. … At its core, the Vesuvius Challenge has become more than a competition. 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The pre-70 date is the old argument (Robinson, 1976; Gentry, 1989); Revelation First is the priority thesis: the rest of the New Testament unfolds from the Apocalypse.", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json correction", "modality": "stipulation", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "RF-16": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "None direct. It shows machine reading recovering text from papyri that cannot be opened, the kind of result that would change what the papyrological record can contain.", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator record: Vesuvius Challenge (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30, schema field census 1.0", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'vesuvius-challenge'].rf_intersection", "modality": "interpretation", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "F19": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 scrolls of papyrus discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum . 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For centuries, as almost every other ancient text decays, the library of the Villa of the Papyri waits underground, intact.", "source": "B1", "source_label": "Vesuvius Challenge — Vesuvius Challenge — Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls with AI", "locus": "Our story, 79 AD", "modality": "documented" }, "RF-08": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "the carbonized papyrus scrolls of Herculaneum, buried in 79 AD", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator record: Vesuvius Challenge (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30, schema field census 1.0", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'vesuvius-challenge'].text_object", "modality": "stipulation", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "RF-10": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "{\"geography\": \"Herculaneum\", \"period\": \"before 79 AD\"}", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator record: Vesuvius Challenge (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30, schema field census 1.0", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'vesuvius-challenge'].coverage", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "F42": { "kind": "field", "quote": "More than 600 Herculaneum scrolls remain unopened.", "source": "B7", "source_label": "UKNow — The day the Herculaneum scrolls began speaking again | UKNow", "locus": "turning point ¶4", "modality": "documented" }, "F24": { "kind": "field", "quote": "In 2023, Nat Friedman , Daniel Gross , and computer scientist Brent Seales announced the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition to \"decipher Herculaneum scrolls using 3D X-ray software\". … The Vesuvius Challenge offered a $700,000 grand prize to be awarded to the first team that could extract four passages of text from two intact scrolls using 3D X-ray scans.", "source": "B4", "source_label": "Wikipedia — Herculaneum papyri", "locus": "Vesuvius Challenge ¶1 (the card's snippet)", "modality": "documented" }, "F8": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Nat Friedman Instigator, Director & Founding Sponsor … Daniel Gross Founding Sponsor … Brent Seales Principal Advisor", "source": "B1", "source_label": "Vesuvius Challenge — Vesuvius Challenge — Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls with AI", "locus": "Team: Created by", "modality": "documented" }, "F9": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Paul Henderson Technical Lead … Federica Nicolardi Papyrology Lead … EduceLab Team (Partners)", "source": "B1", "source_label": "Vesuvius Challenge — Vesuvius Challenge — Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls with AI", "locus": "Team: Led by; EduceLab Team (Partners)", "modality": "documented" }, "F10": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Nat Friedman $2,750,000 Musk Foundation $2,084,000", "source": "B1", "source_label": "Vesuvius Challenge — Vesuvius Challenge — Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls with AI", "locus": "Sponsors", "modality": "documented" }, "F15": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The initiative built on decades of work led by Seales — and a team of researchers with University of Kentucky’s EduceLab — who demonstrated machine learning could detect ink hidden within X-ray scans of carbonized papyri. With that proof of concept, Seales joined Silicon Valley leaders Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to launch a $1 million global challenge aimed at accelerating progress.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "University of Kentucky — Herculaneum | Pigman College of Engineering", "locus": "The Role of the Vesuvius Challenge ¶2", "modality": "documented" }, "F16": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Following the successful extraction of characters from micro-CT X-ray imagery through the use of AI, Seales and co-founders Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross lauched The Vesuvius Challenge, a $1 million global competition to accelerate discoveries and read the scrolls. Seales’ team released software and thousands of 3D scans.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "University of Kentucky — Herculaneum | Pigman College of Engineering", "locus": "timeline, 2023 (March)", "modality": "documented" }, "F43": { "kind": "field", "quote": "“For nearly two millennia, many of these texts have been physically preserved but intellectually inaccessible,” said Brent Seales, Vesuvius Challenge co-founder", "source": "B7", "source_label": "UKNow — The day the Herculaneum scrolls began speaking again | UKNow", "locus": "¶3 (Seales)", "modality": "attributed" }, "RF-09": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "virtual unwrapping and machine-learning ink detection on scans, advanced by open prizes", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator record: Vesuvius Challenge (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30, schema field census 1.0", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'vesuvius-challenge'].method", "modality": "stipulation", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "RF-07": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "a scroll, scanned and virtually unwrapped, with ink detected in the scan", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Revelation First meta-aggregator record: Vesuvius Challenge (https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/), editor Lee Sharks, census compiled 2026-10-30, schema field census 1.0", "record": "https://www.revelationfirst.com/aggregators/vesuvius-challenge/", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'vesuvius-challenge'].unit", "modality": "stipulation", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "F22": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Herculaneum papyri were written using a carbon-based ink, the chemical composition of which is extremely similar to that of the surrounding carbonized parchment.", "source": "B4", "source_label": "Wikipedia — Herculaneum papyri", "locus": "Virtual unrolling: Process ¶2", "modality": "documented" }, "F17": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Researchers confirmed that Herculaneum ink, made of carbon, is invisible in micro-CT scans. To address this, the team developed a neural network trained to detect subtle patterns associated with ink presence.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "University of Kentucky — Herculaneum | Pigman College of Engineering", "locus": "timeline, 2019 (early May)", "modality": "documented" }, "F23": { "kind": "field", "quote": "In the same year, he demonstrated a readable unrolling of another Herculaneum scroll, with help of the particle accelerator Diamond Light Source ; through an X-ray imaging technique, ink containing trace amounts of lead was detected.", "source": "B4", "source_label": "Wikipedia — Herculaneum papyri", "locus": "Virtual unrolling: Process ¶4", "modality": "documented" }, "D1443-02": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "For **PHerc. Paris 4**, ink is directly visible in the tomographic volume and segmentable in three dimensions rather than inferred from a surface fit.", "deposit": 1443, "source_label": "#1443 The Photograph of the Handwritten Original: A Field Survey and Problem Statement for Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts (v3.6, deposit edition)", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1443/", "locus": "§2.4 ¶1", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-08-09" }, "F46": { "kind": "field", "quote": "AI decodes ancient Vesuvius scroll using x-rays #VesuviusChallenge ...", "source": "B10", "source_label": "YouTube·AI Honeycove — AI decodes ancient Vesuvius scroll using x-rays #VesuviusChallenge ...", "locus": "video title (1:02; URL not found; no snippet)", "modality": "attributed" }, "F45": { "kind": "field", "quote": "How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable ...", "source": "B9", "source_label": "Smithsonian Magazine·Smithsonian Magazine — How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable ...", "locus": "video title (12m; Smithsonian video page HTTP 403; no snippet)", "modality": "attributed" }, "F44": { "kind": "field", "quote": "AI Reveals Text In Ancient Greek Scroll Destroyed in Vesuvius Eruption", "source": "B8", "source_label": "YouTube·The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News — AI Reveals Text In Ancient Greek Scroll Destroyed in Vesuvius Eruption", "locus": "video title (12:02; URL not found; no snippet)", "modality": "attributed" }, "F25": { "kind": "field", "quote": "On 12 October 2023, the project awarded $40,000 to Luke Farritor , a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Nebraska, for successfully detecting the first word in an unopened scroll: porphyras", "source": "B4", "source_label": "Wikipedia — Herculaneum papyri", "locus": "Vesuvius Challenge ¶2", "modality": "documented" }, "F26": { "kind": "field", "quote": "On 5 February 2024, the project awarded its 2023 Grand Prize of $700,000 to the winning team and $50,000 each to three runner-up teams for successfully revealing 5% of one scroll , and announced its goal for 2024 of revealing 90% of the four scrolls that it has fully scanned. … The uncovered text is believed to be a previously unknown text of Philodemus , \"centered on the pleasures of music and food and their effects on the senses\".", "source": "B4", "source_label": "Wikipedia — Herculaneum papyri", "locus": "Vesuvius Challenge ¶3", "modality": "documented" }, "F33": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Achievement: Luke Farritor, a University of Nebraska–Lincoln senior, co-won the $700,000 Grand Prize in February 2024 for the global Vesuvius Challenge by decod...", "source": "B6", "source_label": "University of Nebraska–Lincoln — Vesuvius Scrolls | University of Nebraska–Lincoln", "locus": "card title and snippet (unl.edu unreachable: TLS certificate verification failed, twice)", "modality": "documented" }, "F27": { "kind": "field", "quote": "In June 2026, the Vesuvius Challenge team announced that PHerc. 1667, known within the project as \"Scroll 4\", had been virtually unwrapped and read end-to-end. … A project preprint described the work as the first complete virtual unwrapping and extended reading of a rolled Herculaneum papyrus. In the PHerc. 1667, 22 columns of text were recovered, containing \"a Stoic philosophical treatise that may be attributable to Chrysippus \".", "source": "B4", "source_label": "Wikipedia — Herculaneum papyri", "locus": "Vesuvius Challenge ¶5", "modality": "documented" }, "F28": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Besides PHerc. 1667, the team were able to read the title and author of PHerc. 139: Philodemus , On Gods, Book 8 .", "source": "B4", "source_label": "Wikipedia — Herculaneum papyri", "locus": "Vesuvius Challenge ¶5", "modality": "documented" }, "F34": { "kind": "field", "quote": "NAPLES, Italy (June 25, 2026) — The Vesuvius Challenge has achieved a historic breakthrough in the recovery of the Herculaneum scrolls — revealing new texts, titles and authors unknown to history and ushering in a new era for the study of the ancient world.", "source": "B7", "source_label": "UKNow — The day the Herculaneum scrolls began speaking again | UKNow", "locus": "¶1", "modality": "interpretation" }, "F35": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Full virtual unwrapping of the surviving portion of PHerc. 1667 — revealing nearly 1.5 meters of text across 20 columns … Recovery of more than 70 columns of text from PHerc. 172, housed at Oxford’s Bodleian Library … Identification of completely new books from the ancient world by Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, including On Vices, Book 1 and On Gods, Book 8", "source": "B7", "source_label": "UKNow — The day the Herculaneum scrolls began speaking again | UKNow", "locus": "the breakthroughs listed", "modality": "documented" }, "F18": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The achievement establishes, for the first time, a scalable method for recovering complete texts from unopened scrolls — transforming a long-standing technical challenge into an active field of humanistic study.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "University of Kentucky — Herculaneum | Pigman College of Engineering", "locus": "timeline, the 2026 entry", "modality": "interpretation" }, "D1443-01": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "**PHerc. 1667** virtually unwrapped and read end to end, announced **25 June 2026**; ~1.5 m across 20 columns; phase-contrast µCT on the ESRF **BM18** beamline.", "deposit": 1443, "source_label": "#1443 The Photograph of the Handwritten Original: A Field Survey and Problem Statement for Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts (v3.6, deposit edition)", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1443/", "locus": "§2.4 ¶1", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-08-09" }, "F38": { "kind": "field", "quote": "According to the papyrological team’s analysis, the text does appear to be a philosophical treatise concerned with ethics, arts and human behavior, likely reflecting Stoic thought. … “If this text had been found in Egypt or anywhere else, it would probably have been classified straight away as a Stoic text. The fact that it comes from a collection that is almost entirely Epicurean makes us more cautious in drawing conclusions,” Nicolardi added.", "source": "B7", "source_label": "UKNow — The day the Herculaneum scrolls began speaking again | UKNow", "locus": "PHerc. 1667 ¶8–9", "modality": "attributed" }, "F13": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Scientists Have Deciphered the Surviving Fragments of a 2,000 ... The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics, knowledge and human nature—are ac...", "source": "B2", "source_label": "Smithsonian Magazine — Scientists Have Deciphered the Surviving Fragments of a 2,000 ...", "locus": "card title and snippet (Smithsonian Magazine unreachable: HTTP 403, bot check)", "modality": "attributed" }, "F55": { "kind": "field", "quote": "We have already recovered the titles of PHerc. 172 and PHerc. 139 — but the title of Scroll 1, the scroll where the first passages were read, is still missing. … Scroll 1 is one of our most-read scrolls: substantial continuous Greek text of an Epicurean prose work has been recovered, yet its author and title remain unknown.", "source": "B12", "source_label": "Vesuvius Challenge — Open Prizes | Vesuvius Challenge", "locus": "PHerc. 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