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Kayra Buyukyildirim

Kayra Buyukyildirim is a developer and webmaster of Arkeonews with 3 years of hands-on experience, including work on AI projects, and has been covering AI and archaeology for Arkeonews.

Articles by Kayra Buyukyildirim

734 articles

Fragmented Ancient Greek papyrus with a digital overlay showing AI-assisted text restoration.

27 September 2026 AI & Archaeology

Meet Apollo, the First AI That Reads Ancient Greek

A declassified CORONA satellite photograph from the 1970s. Images like this, captured decades ago for Cold War reconnaissance, are now helping archaeologists locate ancient sites that have since vanished from the modern landscape. Image: U.S. Government (declassified CORONA reconnaissance program), public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

15 September 2026 AI & Archaeology

How AI Used Cold War Spy Satellite Photos to Find Lost Sites in Iraq

15 September 2026 Express

2,000-Year-Old Leather Mouse from a Roman Fort May Have Been a Child’s Toy — or a Practical Joke

Reconstructed stone colonnade of the Stoa of Attalos at the Ancient Agora of Athens.

5 September 2026 AI & Archaeology

Articles by Kayra Buyukyildirim

Meet Apollo, the First AI That Reads Ancient Greek

How AI Used Cold War Spy Satellite Photos to Find Lost Sites in Iraq

2,000-Year-Old Leather Mouse from a Roman Fort May Have Been a Child’s Toy — or a Practical Joke

Training AI on the Grammar of Ancient Greek Architecture

Solving Archaeology’s Data Problem with Synthetic Data

Classifying Ancient Japanese Pottery by Shape, with AI

AI Speeds Up the Search for Ancient Stone Structures

AI-Powered Detection of Shipwrecks in Murky Sonar Images

How AI Helps Piece Together Shredded Viking Ship Burial Textiles

Spotting Looted Archaeological Sites From Space Using AI