Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years

A 2,000-year-old scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 has had its contents read for the first time since excavation, thanks to the Vesuvius Challenge community's efforts to virtually unroll micro-CT scans. Liam Warner and Nicola Bodill won the $50,000 First Letters Prize by successfully identifying 10 readable characters in PHerc. 306B, a carbonized papyrus from Herculaneum, though numerous other contestants came close with 7-9 characters identified in the same segment.