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"WE'RE GOING TO READ THE SCROLLS!" Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls but left them unreadable. A volunteer army of nerds has been racing to decipher them. The Herculaneum papyri are a collection of scrolls whose status among classicists approaches the mythical. Last year Nat Friedman launched the Vesuvius Challenge, offering $1 million in prizes to people who could develop AI software capable of reading four passages from a single scroll. Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World? | Bloomberg