# Full reading will remain limited to a few exceptional rolls; for most of the library only scattered words or…

> Still possible: Full reading will remain limited to a few exceptional rolls; for most of the library only scattered words or titles will be recovered.

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Answer · Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge

# Full reading will remain limited to a few exceptional rolls; for most of the library only scattered words or…

Full reading will remain limited to a few exceptional rolls; for most of the library only scattered words or titles will be recovered.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionDeduced0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Progress after 2026 consists mostly of titles and isolated passages rather than complete texts.

## What would rule it out

- Two or more complete intact rolls are read in full.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Fragment-trained ink models in 2023 reached only about 42 per cent character recall with about 18 per cent…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/evidence/EVD0D367YNJ7WKR/fragment-trained-ink-models-in-2023-reached-only-about-42)

Suggestive

FOR

## 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)…

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Full reading will remain limited to a few exceptional rolls; for most of the library only scattered words or… [Answer ANS0D367YDR3AM8]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D367YDR3AM8
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