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 result. Numerous words and successive columns prove that we will be able to read the scrolls using machine learning, A dramatic press conference at the…

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 of $700,000 still beckons. Read all about it here  . [07/08/2023]

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 Challenge including details of early prizes awarded go to https://scrollprize.org/. [31/05/2023]