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Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge2 key questions · 4 questions · 1 answered
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KeyCan the sealed Herculaneum rolls be read in full, non-invasively, at the scale of the whole library?
Most likelyThe 2026 pipeline (BM18 scanning at about 2.4 µm, semi-automatic surface tracing and learned ink detection)…
AnsweredThe readings reflect real ink, as shown by independent imaging and independent readers.
Most likelyThe sealed rolls mirror the opened ones; they are mainly Philodemus and other Epicurean works
Most likelyThe treatise is by another Stoic of the late third or second century BC, possibly in Chrysippus's school