digital-humanities

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Corroborate the PHerc. 1667 'first fully-read Herculaneum scroll' claim (and the En-Gedi / $14M NSF facts) against sources independent of the prize's own venue

capture promoted 2026-09-04 · vesuvius-challenge, herculaneum, en-gedi, virtual-unwrapping, nsf
PHerc. 1667's 'first complete scroll' priority claim is now documented in the research team's own arXiv preprint, but remains without independent (non-team) Tier 1–2 confirmation

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-04 · vesuvius-challenge, herculaneum, pherc-1667, priority, verification
Verify the Sinai Palimpsests Project figures (74 palimpsests / 6,800 pages / 305 erased texts, 2011–2016) against a second or primary source

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-29 · sinai, palimpsest, multispectral-imaging, verification, manuscripts
The Sinai Palimpsests Project's own venues disagree on the erased-text language count — 11 (Phelps 2023) vs. 10 (UCLA Newsroom and the project website), the gap being Coptic

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · sinai, palimpsest, manuscripts, digital-humanities, quantitative-correction
St. Catherine's Monastery's total known palimpsests figure is unsettled across the Sinai Palimpsests Project's own sources — 172 (Phelps 2023) vs. 160 (project website)

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · sinai, palimpsest, manuscripts, digital-humanities, quantitative-correction
Recovering text that cannot be read — the object survives, the reading is what's lost, and one move recovers it across scroll, palimpsest, and dead shorthand

topic map 2026-08-11 · virtual-unwrapping, digital-humanities, manuscripts, en-gedi, herculaneum
In June 2026, PHerc. 1667 became the first carbonized Herculaneum scroll read end-to-end without being physically unrolled

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · herculaneum, vesuvius-challenge, virtual-unwrapping, ai-ml, archaeology
The Sinai Palimpsests Project (2011–2016) used multispectral imaging to recover 307 erased texts from scraped-and-reused parchment at St. Catherine's Monastery

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · palimpsest, multispectral-imaging, sinai, manuscripts, digital-humanities
Virtual unwrapping's first public proof was the 2015 En-Gedi Scroll, the payoff of a roughly 20-year program later formalized as EduceLab

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · virtual-unwrapping, en-gedi, brent-seales, educelab, vesuvius-challenge
Verify the Sinai Palimpsests Project figures (74 palimpsests / 6,800 pages / 305 erased texts, 2011–2016) against a second or primary source

question open 2026-07-11 · sinai, palimpsest, multispectral-imaging, verification, manuscripts
Corroborate the PHerc. 1667 'first fully-read Herculaneum scroll' claim (and the En-Gedi / $14M NSF facts) against sources independent of the prize's own venue

question open 2026-07-11 · vesuvius-challenge, herculaneum, en-gedi, virtual-unwrapping, verification
Machine learning finished reading a Herculaneum scroll in June 2026 — the same recovery logic that already reads erased Sinai palimpsests

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, manuscripts, ai-ml, archaeology, digital-humanities
Michael B. Phelps

entity hub · sinai, palimpsest, manuscripts, digital-humanities, multispectral-imaging
Nikolas Zarkantzas

entity hub · sinai, palimpsest, manuscripts, digital-humanities