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The Vesuvius Challenge: Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls

The Vesuvius challenge is an open competition with the goal of reading the Herculaneum scrolls wich were buried and carbonized during the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD. For more information on the challenge see https://scrollprize.org/.

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