GoKawiilVesuvius Challenge awards $50K prize for first text recovered from PHerc. 306B
Researchers Liam Warner and Nicola Bodill won the Vesuvius Challenge's First Letters Prize for recovering readable ink text from PHerc. 306B, a carbonized scroll buried by Vesuvius in AD79. The find also clarified that 306B is the upper portion of the original scroll, with 306A its lower section, after 25 community submissions were reviewed.