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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by desterothx on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:45AM (#50453353)
Well to be fair archeology as a profession did not really exist at that point, it was mostly rich peoples hobbies, or authoritarian rulers way of legitimizing their rule through an ancestry argument
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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by TSiege on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:49AM (#50453394)
This actually isn't entirely true and archeologists at his own time said they way he worked was bad and the Ottoman government tried to stop him. At one point he had to flee the site and could only get back by hiring a professional archeologist to help him.
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