A team of researchers created their own contemporary model papyrus scrolls, charring them like the originals, to validate a screening method for determining which of the roughly 600 Herculaneum scroll…
A developer fixed a 58%-reproducible race condition in the disk cache of the Vesuvius Challenge's open-source monorepo, ScrollPrize/villa, which uses machine learning to read carbonized Herculaneum sc…
A new registry cataloguing scientific results produced with AI lists 19 findings as of July 22, 2026, including a counterexample to the Dinitz–Garg–Goemans conjecture by GPT-5.6 Pro and a formally ver…
Scientists used artificial intelligence to read an entire ancient scroll from Herculaneum that was charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, without physically opening it. The team employed …
Researchers have used artificial intelligence and advanced imaging to decipher a carbonized scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, recovering all surviving text from a single scroll…
Scientists have fully read a charred Herculaneum scroll without opening it, using X-ray tomography and machine learning. The scroll, PHerc. 1667, contains a Stoic philosophical treatise on ethics. Thi…
Researchers used AI and high-resolution CT scans to read a sealed scroll from Herculaneum, destroyed by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. The scroll, PHerc. 1667, contains a Stoic philosophy trea…