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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by TacticalCoder on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:38AM (#50453279)
> The best way to protect a site is to leave it alone. If we start finding dozens or hundreds of sites it will be more than what archaeologists can excavate and protest.

Ain't the site itself the most important thing? As opposed to items: looters won't steal the site?

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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by AlotOfReading on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:17AM (#50453718)
Looters will absolutely destroy a site to find valuables that may or may not even be there. Ai-khanoum is a classic example, with the vast majority of the site having been filled with pits on the off chance there were valuables. Nowadays they use bulldozers and excavators to loot at an industrial scale. It's pretty difficult to do archaeology on a pile of sifted dirt.
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