The Vesuvius Challenge is a machine learning and computer vision competition to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
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13 Nov 2025
The Vesuvius Challenge is still a CHALLENGE! 🧠📜 We’re teaming up with @kaggle to launch a $100K Surface Detection competition on 3D CT scans of the Herculaneum scrolls: kaggle.com/competitions/vesu… . Train topology-aware models, climb the leaderboard, and help us read an ancient library! #VesuviusChallenge #kaggle #computervision #machinelearning
Vesuvius Challenge - Surface Detection
Build a model to virtually unwrap ancient scrolls.
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23 May 2025
Awarding the fantastic contributions from our community in April! Congratulations to the winners of this month's progress prizes!
Sestertius - Lachlan Parker, Will Stevens
Papyrus - Stephane Gouttebrouze , Yao Hsao
Newsletter - open.substack.com/pub/scroll…
Open Prizes - scrollprize.org/prizes
Discord - discord.com/invite/uTfNwwecC…
We've awarded $1.5 million in prizes to date and have $500,000 in prizes waiting to be claimed! Check out the site and join the discord to get started.
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5 May 2025
We're excited to announce that we are awarding our inaugural $60,000 First Title Prize!!!
PHerc. 172 is officially On Vices
Congratulations to Marcel Roth and Micha Nowak for the historic achievement of recovering the first title ever found in a still-rolled Herculaneum scroll!!
We've written up an extended announcement that goes into some additional details about the title and what we may learn from it here: scrollprize.substack.com/p/6…
We've got a ton more prizes available, join our quest to read the Herculaneum scrolls and you too could win a prize like this one! scrollprize.org/get_started
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Social links for :
Marcel : linkedin.com/in/mvrcelroth/
Micha : linkedin.com/in/mvnowak
Congrats again to you both!
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1 May 2025
We’re looking for exceptional people to join our mission to read the Herculaneum Scrolls. Refer a successful hire — earn a $5,000 prize.
We're hiring for the following roles:
Geometry & Computer Vision Applied Researchers
Platform Engineers
Synchrotron Tomography Reconstruction Expert
If you know someone brilliant who can help recover the ancient scrolls of Herculaneum, your referral could change history!
View Open Roles - scrollprize.org/jobs
Check the instructions - (scrollprize.org/prizes#refer…
Send referals to : jobs@scrollprize.org
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25 Apr 2025
This month, we more than quadrupled the "virtual library" of Herculaneum scrolls, going from 5 to 23 total scans.
This required an immense effort from our team and partners (some might even say Herculean!). If you've ever wondered what the process looks like, take a look at our latest substack post!
open.substack.com/pub/scroll…
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12 Mar 2025
We've awarded our first set of progress prizes for the new year! Congrats to the winners! Included as well are some updates from the past month, including a sneak peek at some information regarding our upcoming scans! scrollprize.substack.com/p/f…
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15 Feb 2025
Over $320,000 in new prizes, and tens of meters of fresh ancient scroll. There's never been a better time to start the challenge! Details here: scrollprize.org/prizes
Join the Discord! We'd love to help you get started. discord.gg/uTfNwwecCQ
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Vesuvius Challenge retweeted
7 Feb 2025
The @bodleianlibs and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a historic breakthrough in the endeavour to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum.
ALT X-ray image showing the detailed interior text of a Herculaneum scroll, unread for nearly 2,000 years, with the logo of the University of Oxford at the bottom.
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7 Feb 2025
Want to be the first person in 2,000 years to read a word in an ancient scroll? Good news! We just released a ton more segmentations from Scroll 3! Head to scrollprize.org/ or join the Discord discord.gg/uTfNwwecCQ to get started!
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Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough: Scientists digitally "unroll" 2,000-year-old scroll scorched by Mount Vesuvius. cbsn.ws/3Q27rGu
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Vesuvius Challenge retweeted
5 Feb 2025
We found some words in Scroll 5, which is from the Bodleian Library collection of Herculaneum papyri. Still work to do to prevent our segmentation algorithm from jumping between adjacent sheets so we can get whole sentences and paragraphs out of this scroll, but this is very promising!
Words found include ἀδιάληπτος (‘foolish’), διατροπή (‘disgust’), φοβ (‘fear’), and βίου (‘life’).
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Vesuvius Challenge retweeted
6 Feb 2025
In 2023, several tech executives sponsored the “Vesuvius Challenge” competition, offering cash rewards for efforts to decipher the scrolls with machine learning, computer vision and geometry. trib.al/DDmwvue
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Vesuvius Challenge retweeted
5 Feb 2025
First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years bbc.in/40NJzv2
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5 Feb 2025
We recently partnered with @bodleianlibs and @UniofOxford and are thrilled to share some exciting news!
Tons of new text, huge segmentations, and updates on the state of ink detection and segmentation: scrollprize.substack.com/p/e…
More to come soon!
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Vesuvius Challenge retweeted
5 Feb 2025
More exciting results from our collaboration with @scrollprize and @natfriedman
5 Feb 2025
First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years bbc.in/40NJzv2
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We're awarding $30k and an awesome custom lego set to two of our year-end submissions. Congrats to @.waldkauz, @.Paul , and @.Bruniss! From hundreds of hours of human input down to less than 4. Incredible progress this year!
Newsletter: scrollprize.substack.com/p/a…
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