<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Buried deep under volcanic ash lie hundreds of burnt scrolls containing texts from the first century. A new project is driving the work to try to read these chunks of carbon, to uncover new works and open new doors into the past. We spoke to one of the leaders of this project, Dr. Stephen Parsons, about the Vesuvius Challenge, the technical aspects of ‘virtual unrolling’, the possibilities of new classical texts, the development of new ways of doing scholarship, and more. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Also, please check out the<a href="https://mdsc.akaraisin.com/ui/dd2024/g/42044 " target="_blank"> Defeat Depression fundraising event</a>, and the<a href="https://mdsc.akaraisin.com/ui/dd2024/g/42044" target="_blank"> Sudbury Walk/Run </a>on May 25.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://scrollprize.org/" target="_blank">The Vesuvius Challenge</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://thekaitlynhill.com/" target="_blank">Kaitlyn Hill’s books</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="/episode-121-transcript">Transcript of this episode</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://youtu.be/UNbNIq6ZTXE" target="_blank">This episode on YouTube</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/TheEndlessKnot">Our Patreon page</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://endlessknot.redbubble.com/">Redbubble store</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This podcast is licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="http://feeds.podtrac.com/nuN4kzwmvyye">The Endless Knot RSS</a></p>