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vesuvius challenge reading the herculaneum scrolls with ai skip to main content vesuvius challenge prizes problems tutorials in depth virtual unwrapping spiral fitting winding constraints ink detection data milestones community discord 𝕏 substack github hugging face weights biases press donate join discord get started resurrecting an ancient library from the ashes of a volcano buried in 79 ad now being revealed vesuvius challenge is an open science research organization reading the carbonized herculaneum scrolls without unrolling them anyone can help we run a 2m competition with prizes every month get started join discord news more on substack 60 000 first title prize awarded may 5 february prizes and updates march 12 new prizes and progress update february 27 first letters found in new scroll february 5 open problems prizes all prizes and rules virtual unwrapping we can trace a scroll s surface but where sheets are crushed or torn it still needs human help help us make it fully automatic win the 1 000 000 grand prize learn about the current path ink detection we can see ink in some scrolls but models trained on one rarely transfer to the next help us make them work on every scroll win the 500 000 first letters prizes learn how to find a letter our story all milestones 79 ad 1750 2015 2023 2026 vesuvius erupts burying a villa and its library of papyrus scrolls under twenty meters of ash the scrolls are carbonized by the heat but also preserved for centuries as almost every other ancient text decays the library of the villa of the papyri waits underground intact team led by paul henderson technical lead federica nicolardi papyrology lead created by nat friedman instigator director founding sponsor daniel gross founding sponsor brent seales principal advisor technical team sean johnson research scientist hendrik schilling research scientist elian rafael dal prá research assistant johannes rudolph platform engineer papyrology team federica nicolardi associate professor university of naples federico ii marzia d angelo postdoctoral fellow university of naples federico ii kilian fleischer research director and papyrologist university of tübingen alessia lavorante postdoctoral fellow university of naples federico ii michael mcosker researcher university of oxford maria chiara robustelli postdoctoral fellow university of naples federico ii claudio vergara postdoctoral fellow university of naples federico ii rossella villa research assistant university of salerno annotation team david josey team lead kendra brown annotation specialist laura trojak annotation specialist advisors alumni papyrology advisors educelab team partners jp posma project lead stephen parsons project lead giorgio angelotti project tech team lead youssef nader machine learning researcher ben kyles segmentation team lead julian schilliger software engineer forrest mcdonald software engineer adrionna fey annotation specialist cooper miller annotation specialist eric thvedt annotation specialist konrad rosenberg annotation specialist raymond gasper annotation specialist sarah morejohn annotation specialist sergei pnev annotation specialist techjays annotation services daniel havíř machine learning ian janicki design chris frangione prizes garrett ryan classics dejan gotić 3d animator jonny hyman 2d animator daniel delattre emeritus research director and papyrologist cnrs and irht gianluca del mastro professor of papyrology l università della campania l vanvitelli robert fowler fellow of the british academy professor emeritus of classics bristol university richard janko fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences professor of classics university of michigan tobias reinhardt corpus christi professor of the latin language and literature oxford brent seales principal investigator professor of computer science seth parker assistant research professor christy chapman research partnership manager mami hayashida research staff james brusuelas associate professor of classics beth lutin college business analyst roger macfarlane professor of classical studies sponsors make a donation nat friedman 2 750 000 musk foundation 2 084 000 alex gerko 450 000 joseph jacks 250 000 daniel gross 225 000 matt mullenweg 150 000 john patrick collison 125 000 emergent ventures 100 000 eugene jhong 100 000 julia dewahl dan romero 100 000 anonymous 100 000 bastian lehmann 75 000 tobi lutke 75 000 arthur breitman 50 000 guillermo rauch 50 000 matt huang 50 000 anonymous 50 000 anonymous 50 000 aaron levie 25 000 akshay kothari 25 000 alexa mclain 25 000 anjney midha 25 000 franciscosan org 25 000 john o brien 25 000 mark cummins 25 000 jamie cox gary wu 15 000 mike mignano 15 000 aravind srinivas 10 000 brandon reeves 10 000 brandon silverman 10 000 chet corcos 10 000 ivan zhao 10 000 katsuya noguchi 10 000 matias nisenson 10 000 maya taylor blau 10 000 mikhail parakhin 10 000 neil parikh 10 000 raymond russell 10 000 sahil chaudhary 10 000 shariq hashme 10 000 stephanie sher 10 000 vignan velivela 10 000 alex petkas 5 000 amjad masad 5 000 conor white sullivan 5 000 will fitzgerald 5 000 show more partners discord github hugging face weights biases substack 𝕏 jobs copyright 2026 vesuvius challenge content licensed cc by nc 4 0 unless otherwise specified ask philodemus ask