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Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor, and Julian Schilliger won the 2023 Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000 for a submission that read text from a carbonized Herculaneum scroll. Their entry met the challenge's criteria of four 140-character passages with at least 85% of characters recoverable, and added 11 more columns, more than 2,000 characters in total. Initial readings suggest the scroll is a philosophical text on pleasure, and the winning submission's ink detection code has been released as open source. Three runners-up each received $50,000.