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.