• Decisive breakthrough in reading Herculaneum papyri

    Within days of the first detection of a dozen clear letters in the interior of a scroll, Youssef Nader, entrant in the Vesuvius Challenge, has produced an even more astounding […]

  • Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!

    Many prizes have already been awarded for Ink Detection and Segmentation in the Vesuvius Challenge – upwards of $150,000! Follow-on prizes of $102,000 have been announced, and of course the grand prize […]

  • Q&A on Herculaneum papyri

    As part of the Vesuvius Challenge an online Q&A session with world-leading papyrologists was held on 25 May. You can watch it now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gielO5WHdu4 . For the latest on the Vesuvius […]