The 2023 winners were announced of the Vesuvius Challenge. The goal was to read portions of the Herculaneum scrolls that were left damaged after the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. First breakthroughs occurred in October 2023 (see post below), A Grand Prize was awarded to the first team to recover 4 passages of 140 characters from the Herculaneum scroll. Smaller prizes were also announced.     https://scrollprize.org/   The Vesuvius Challenge for 2024