Free Herculaneum discovery card

Find a route, identify an object, order the research stages and test a headline.

Carbonised fragments PHerc. 1103 and PHerc. 110 showing curved layers and broken surfaces — PHerc. 1103 (a) and PHerc. 110 (b, c); these are not PHerc. 1667. Sara Stabile, Francesca Palermo, Inna Bukreeva, Daniela Mele, Vincenzo Formoso, Roberto Bartolino and Alessia Cedola · 2021-01-18 · CC BY 4.0. Contrast and brightness were enhanced in the research image; existing Wikimedia derivative reused without further processing. Image record ↗

1. Trace a possible route on the historical plan. Describe two connected spaces, then write one question the drawing cannot answer. Label it as a historical plan, not a current excavation map.

2. Inspect the papyrus photograph. Record the two PHerc. identifiers, a visible fold and a damaged edge. State why this photograph cannot be labelled as PHerc. 1667.

3. Arrange these tasks: follow a layer, flatten a digital surface, detect ink, transcribe, translate. Explain which distinction the Bodleian announcement makes between machine learning and scholarly reading.

4. Test the headline ‘An entire ancient library has been read’. Compare the 2026 announcement with the data-browser description. Record date, sample ID, source URL and a corrected headline. Leave unknown information blank.

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