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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.
Another game by Grand using the same engine is 1991's The Adventures of Robin Hood. The game is divided into six chapters: Herculaneum: You have to advance from slave to citizen and escape the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Rome 1: You have to warn the emperor about a planned assassination. Britain: You have to fight the Britons.
ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to ...
The 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried hundreds of scrolls that researchers now think they can read with artificial intelligence.
A strategy game set during the ancient Italian wars. The game focuses on the unification of Italy and features campaigns centered around Pyrrhus of Epirus and the struggles between early Roman and Italic states. Builders of Greece: TBA: 500 – 300 BC: An upcoming city-building game where players build and manage a city-state in ancient Greece.
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Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius, also known as TimeScape: Journey to Pompeii in North America and Pompéi: La Colère du volcan in France, is a 2000 historical adventure game. The game was developed by Arxel Tribe and Réunion des Musées Nationaux , and published by Cryo Interactive .