In February 2024, the Vesuvius Challenge named Nebraska senior Luke Farritor as one of three co-winners of its $700,000 Grand Prize for digitally deciphering at least four passages of a 2,000-year-old ...

Last year, a Vesuvius Challenge research team managed to read about 5 per cent of another Herculaneum scroll. The subject was Greek Epicurean philosophy, which teaches that fulfilment can be found ...

He, along with second-place winner Nader, used AI to become the first to read a single word from the scroll. The word was translated from Greek to mean "purple dye" or "clothes of purple." ...