AI agents comb LiDAR data for ruins: 4 new sites confirmed out of 178 submissions
BorisMPower · x · 2026-11-12
A developer published the full record of a 2-month AI-assisted archaeology project: AI agents analyzed LiDAR data to flag potential sites, with every outcome independently assessed (GitHub repo lidar-discoveries).
- 178 candidate locations were submitted to regional heritage authorities
- 4 were confirmed by the responsible archaeologists as previously unknown sites
- The repo transparently documents methods, verification, negatives, and every correction
- The project was inspired by Pietro Miotti's viral post, which community notes showed was already a known site — but it opened the door to reproducible AI-driven discovery
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