Liam Warner and Nicola Bodill win $50K prize for reading 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll text buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, using micro-CT scans to reveal Greek letters deep inside carbonized papyrus.

Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years

PHerc. 306 was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. Since being excavated in the 1750s then micro-CT scanned last year, no-one had read what was written in it. Now, after reviewing a massive 25 submissions on this scroll from the Vesuvius Challenge community, we are finally able to award a $50K First Letters Prize on PHerc. 306B. This one was a challenging one!Congratulations to Liam Warner & Nicola Bodill for their work revealing ink and recovering readable text from this scroll!PH...