Think you can decipher an ancient scroll? You could win a million bucks

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As It Happens6:22Think you can decipher an ancient scroll? You could win $1M

If you like a good challenge, here’s one that could have you attempting to decipher words or symbols first written down in the days of ancient Rome and unearthed in the 1700s. 

“You don’t often have a chance to work on a 300-year-old puzzle and to go, as a technical person, on an Indiana Jones-style archeology adventure,” Nat Friedman told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

“This is one of those rare chances.”

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Friedman is a tech entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, and one of the people behind the Vesuvius Challenge — a

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