A former SpaceX intern and 2 other students won $700,000 for deciphering a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll using AI. Here's what it said.

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Greek words on a scanned image of papyrus and the charred scroll below it with red lines from an X-ray
This ancient scroll is part of the only library left from the ancient world.

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A 21-year-old won $40,000 for using AI to read the first word on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius

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A charred black Herculaneum scroll with red laser lines being scanned at Institut de France by Brent Seales and his team
The University of Kentucky team scanned the Herculaneum scroll and took X-ray images of the inside.

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