The digital unrolling and reading of PHerc. 1667 without physical contact represents a significant advancement in the study of ancient texts.

Wow. "We have completely virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667 — the scroll the Vesuvius Challenge community knows as Scroll 4 — without ever touching its pages. It is the first Herculaneum papyrus to be digitally unrolled and read in full, end to end, and made available for sustained scholarly study." https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll #Vesuvius #Scrolls

Well, this is big news!!! "We have completely virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667 — the scroll the Vesuvius Challenge community knows as Scroll 4 — without ever touching its pages. It is the first Herculaneum papyrus to be digitally unrolled and read in full, end to end" https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll