Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll!
The 2000-year-old scroll discusses music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures.
On Monday we announced the results of the Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize. Read the whole story, and what comes next, at scrollprize.org/grandprize!
So great! There is understandably often a focus on the Villa dei Papyri, but would it be possible there are other government buildings still buried in the town forum that also could have carbonized scrolls or records? Maybe even other houses with libraries or town libraries?
This is fricken nuts…