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Multiple scrolls now show Greek letters

Who wants to help read them all?

Oct 9 • 

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September 2025

Column of text from PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5)

These scrolls are full of text! Help us extract it, win prizes and change history forever!

Sep 11 • 

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August 2025

Unveiling the Mystery of Compressed Regions

Sub-micron scanning reveals why some papyrus layers appear blurred

Aug 15 • 

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July 2025

Summer haze comes with ink

...and prizes!

Jul 4 • 

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June 2025

May Progress Prizes and Updates to Tooling

Working with scroll data can be challenging.

Jun 13 • 

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May 2025

April Progress Prizes / Updates

New methods for scroll shape analysis

May 23 • 

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$60,000 First Title Prize Awarded!

Title of a still-rolled Herculaneum scroll has been read for first time ever

May 5 • 

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Announcing: $5,000 Referral Prize

Help us recover lost works from antiquity

May 1 • 

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April 2025

Scanning Herculaneum Scrolls at Scale

This week, we quadrupled the library of scanned scrolls from Herculaneum

Apr 25 • 

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March 2025

February Progress Prizes and Updates

Our first set of progress prizes for 2025 features continued high-quality work from several dedicated contributors.

Mar 12 • 

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February 2025

New Prizes and an Update on Progress

This year, we’re issuing more frequent, targeted awards that address specific technical challenges.

Feb 27 • 

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Exciting news from Scroll 5!

For the past several months, our team and community have been working hard on ink detection and segmentation of P.Herc.

Feb 5 • 

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