Digital Archaeology

Commenters liken a technical discovery or project to digital or virtual archaeology, debating its legitimacy compared to real archaeological practices, with references to artifacts, digs, and future excavations.

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guerrilla Sep 5, 2025 View on HN

This feels like real archeology.

vectorEQ Nov 22, 2018 View on HN

very cool find. archeologists also destroy a lot of evidence, and if they find anything that doesn't fit rpevious findings often either ignore it or are highly skeptical, which is why i assume he hd some trouble to convince this was an actual find, and had to ... dig a little deeper :D

ianstallings Jun 10, 2014 View on HN

Can we classify this as "archeology"?

bediger4000 Sep 30, 2025 View on HN

Text seems AI generated. No pictures, no diagrams, no links to archaeology sites. Waste of time.

tempodox Oct 10, 2019 View on HN

Digital archaeology has always been an interest of mine. Must be fascinating to investigate such antique artifacts.

NoGravitas Dec 18, 2015 View on HN

Former archaeologist here, can confirm.

arnaudsm Jul 20, 2020 View on HN

This is basically virtual archeology, nice work !

Avshalom Aug 19, 2022 View on HN

the wikipedia article says there have been archeological digs there.

jacquesm May 13, 2017 View on HN

The context is archeology, not grocery shopping.

lostlogin Mar 20, 2024 View on HN

One day an archeologist is going to be grateful.