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  1. Antiker Schatz: Ein Team hat die ersten Passagen einer beim Vesuv-Ausbruch in Herculaneum verkohlten Schriftrolle lesbar gemacht – und einen zuvor unbekannten antikenText enthüllt. #VesuviusChallenge #Herculaneum #Schriftrolle #Archäologie
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  2. Trio wins $700K Vesuvius Challenge grand prize for deciphering ancient scroll - Enlarge / Text from one of the Herculaneum scrolls has been deciphered.... - arstechnica.com/?p=2001066 #herculaneumscrolls #digitalunwrapping #vesuviuschallenge #ancienttexts #archaeology #science

  3. #NatFriedman was the CEO of #Github form 2018 to 2021. Before that he started and sold two companies - Ximian and Xamarin. He is also the founder of #AIGrant and CA YIMBY. Most recently he created, funded #VesuviusChallenge - $1M prize for reading an unopened #Herculaneum #scroll for the very first time. If we can uncover these #scrolls, we may be able to recover lost #gospels, forgotten #epics, and missing works of #Aristotle. #VesuviusChallenge : scrollprize.org/ #EpicurianTradition