Farritor named co-winner of $700,000 prize for ID’ing scroll passages

LINCOLN, Neb. (UNL) – In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to free a Greek word from its prison: papyrus charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and $40,000 from the…

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