# The 2026 pipeline (BM18 scanning at about 2.4 µm, semi-automatic surface tracing and learned ink detection)…

> Most likely: The 2026 pipeline (BM18 scanning at about 2.4 µm, semi-automatic surface tracing and learned ink detection) will read most sealed rolls with…

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Answer · Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge

# The 2026 pipeline (BM18 scanning at about 2.4 µm, semi-automatic surface tracing and learned ink detection)…

The 2026 pipeline (BM18 scanning at about 2.4 µm, semi-automatic surface tracing and learned ink detection) will read most sealed rolls with modest further development.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: two pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- A complete intact roll, outer layer to core, is unwrapped and read within the 2027 prize window.
- Titles are recovered from most rolls in the eligible prize set.
- Time per roll falls as tracing becomes automatic (spiral fitting, VC3D).

## What would rule it out

- Several intact rolls scanned under the 2026 protocol yield no traceable surface or no ink signal across most of their area.

## Evidence 2 for · 2 against

[About 70 per cent of PHerc. 172 had been digitally unwrapped by mid-2026.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/evidence/EVD0D367WYW5RJ6/about-70-per-cent-of-pherc-172-had-been-digitally-unwrapped)

Supported

FOR

[PHerc. 1667's preserved surface, about 860 square centimetres in 22 columns, was unwrapped and transcribed…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/evidence/EVD0D367WQ27RGQ/pherc-1667s-preserved-surface-about-860-square-centimetres)

Supported

FOR

[PHerc. 1667 is only an 8 cm by 2 cm core, so its success says little about tracing a full 4 to 6 cm roll.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/evidence/EVD0D367X6P672V/pherc-1667-is-only-an-8-cm-by-2-cm-core-so-its-success-says)

Supported

AGAINST

[The 2027 Grand Prize is offered for fully unrolling one scroll from a set of 13, which implies no complete…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/evidence/EVD0D367XEG1P49/the-2027-grand-prize-is-offered-for-fully-unrolling-one)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Can the sealed Herculaneum rolls be read in full, non-invasively, at the scale of the whole library?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/questions/QST0D367VG00XNS/can-the-sealed-herculaneum-rolls-be-read-in-full-non)

Most likelyThe 2026 pipeline (BM18 scanning at about 2.4 µm, semi-automatic surface tracing and learned ink detection)…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The 2026 pipeline (BM18 scanning at about 2.4 µm, semi-automatic surface tracing and learned ink detection)… [Answer ANS0D367WF82EJD]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D367WF82EJD
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