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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.

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A lidar-derived digital surface model of terrain near Topanga Beach, Los Angeles. Elevation data like this is the same kind of raw material researchers feed into AI models to detect archaeological features. Image: U.S. Geological Survey, public domain.
22 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

Solving Archaeology’s Data Problem with Synthetic Data

A Sue ware storage jar from Japan's Kofun period, 6th–7th century. Made from the same wheel-thrown, high-fired stoneware tradition examined in this study. Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain.
21 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

Classifying Ancient Japanese Pottery by Shape, with AI

The Jubbah region and surrounding Nefud Desert in northwestern Saudi Arabia, part of the landscape where AI is being used to map and identify ancient stone structures from satellite imagery. Image credit: NASA / International Space Station, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
18 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

AI Speeds Up the Search for Ancient Stone Structures

The wreck of the schooner Defiance, resting in 185 feet of water in Lake Huron. One of nearly 100 historic shipwrecks protected within NOAA's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the same waters used to build the sonar dataset AI models like SW-Net are trained and tested on. Credit: NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, public domain.
17 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

AI-Powered Detection of Shipwrecks in Murky Sonar Images

The Oseberg ship on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. Excavated from the same ninth-century burial mound as the fragmented textiles this AI system was built to help reassemble. Photo: larry1732 / Flickr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
15 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

How AI Helps Piece Together Shredded Viking Ship Burial Textiles

Satellite view of rugged terrain in Surkhandarya, Uzbekistan, used here to illustrate the kind of remote, hard-to-monitor landscape this technology is built for. Image: NASA Earth Observatory, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Public domain.
14 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

Spotting Looted Archaeological Sites From Space Using AI

Ruined stone walls, shown here as a general example of the kind of scattered, collapsed structures the detection system is built to map. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
13 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

Reading Ruined Stone Walls with the Assistance of AI

ADAF model outputs from airborne laser-scanning (ALS) data. Image: Čož et al. (2026), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, CC BY 4.0.
12 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

ADAF: How Deep Learning Helps Archaeologists Spot What Manual Analysis Misses

The Babylonian Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script. Believed to have been written c. 1800 BCE, this tablet lists two of the three numbers in what are now called Pythagorean triples. Credit: Public Domain
11 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

TabletCraft Opens a Two-Way AI Translation Channel for Archaeologists

Three-panel comparison of AI-based LiDAR segmentation results from the Roselle archaeological site, showing Random Forest prediction, Point Transformer prediction, and ground-truth data. Blue boxes highlight areas where the two models differ or make classification errors. Image credit: Mazzacca & Remondino (2026), Heritage, 9(4), 134.
10 August 2026 · AI & Archaeology

AI-Powered LiDAR Helps Archaeologists Detect Hidden Structures Beneath Forest Canopies

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