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But they were so delicate and prone to turn ash if mishandled that they couldn’t be read. Previous scientists studying the scrolls could make out some Greek letters and symbols and even trained a machine-learning algorithm to read the blank ink of Herculaneum. And now, Luke Farritor, a 21-year-old college student and former SpaceX summer intern, has decoded an entire word from within an unopened scroll. He has been awarded a $40,000 First Letters Prize award, which required contestants to find at least 10 letters in a 4 cm2 area in a scroll, said the
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