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In 2023, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and computer scientist Brent Seales announced the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition to "decipher Herculaneum scrolls using 3D X-ray software". [ 37 ] [ 38 ] The Vesuvius Challenge offered a $700,000 grand prize to be awarded to the first team that could extract four passages of text from two intact scrolls ...
The Vesuvius Challenge raised US$1 million, with an objective of clear readings of the scroll and the future aim of reading other carbonized, sealed fragments of the Herculaneum corpus, with a distant idea towards excavating more portions of the Villa of the Papyri in order to recover more scrolls.
The Vesuvius Challenge offered $1 million in prizes to anyone who could solve the problem and find a way to read the remaining 270 closed scrolls, most of which are preserved in a library in ...
It is reportedly the most expensive British children's TV series to date at £1 million per hour. [1] The series began filming in June 2006 [2] in Malta, Tunisia and Bulgaria, and was first broadcast from 8 May 2007. [3] The series is divided into "scrolls", each based on one book, starting with The Secrets of Vesuvius.
العربية; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština; Deutsch; Ελληνικά
The 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried hundreds of scrolls that researchers now think they can read with artificial intelligence.
On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films [97] 1944: Red Sky at Morning: Hartney Arthur: Peter Finch, John Alden [65] 1945: Flight from Folly: Herbert Mason: Patricia Kirkwood, Hugh Sinclair: Screen debut of stage star Kirkwood. On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films [98] 1945: We Accuse: Joseph H. Zarovich: Everett Sloane, narr.
Lost and Found on a South Sea Island: Raoul Walsh: House Peters, Pauline Starke: Originally, only one reel was known to have survived, according to a recent biography of Walsh. However, a complete print was found in the Italian archive Cineteca Del Friuli in Gemona. [1] Rosita: Ernst Lubitsch: Mary Pickford