AI & Archaeology

AI & Archaeology — Latest and general articles on the use of artificial intelligence in archaeology, including AI-powered research, analysis, discovery, and the study of ancient cultures.

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China Unveils Five-Year Archaeology Strategy Featuring AI and Deep-Sea Robotics

Meet Apollo, the First AI That Reads Ancient Greek

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

2,400-Year-Old Etruscan Tomb of the Blue Demons May Have Created a Trance-Like Sensory Experience

Training AI on the Grammar of Ancient Greek Architecture

14 August 2026

Spotting Looted Archaeological Sites From Space Using AI

Looting is one of the biggest threats to archaeological sites, and detecting it is not always…

13 August 2026

Reading Ruined Stone Walls with the Assistance of AI

AI adoption is becoming increasingly well established in archaeology, with a growing range of systems designed…

12 August 2026

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

A new tool called ADAF scans airborne laser-scanning data to flag archaeological features that even trained…

11 August 2026

TabletCraft Opens a Two-Way AI Translation Channel for Archaeologists

TabletCraft, a new open-source AI system for translating cuneiform, tackles a problem that has challenged archaeology…

10 August 2026

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

New research shows how artificial intelligence could help archaeologists detect ancient structures hidden under dense vegetation…

9 August 2026

Scientists Built an AI That Can “Read” 7,000-Year-Old Seeds

An artificial intelligence system trained on ancient plant remains from archaeological sites across China could significantly…

2 July 2026

Where Were the Dead Sea Scrolls Written? New €2.5M AI Project Takes On a 2,000-Year-Old Mystery

A new international research project will try to answer one of the most persistent questions in…

19 December 2024

KIŠIB: A Digital Archive From 80,000 Mesopotamian Seals is Being Created

Over the next 16 years, a research team from the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology at…

13 November 2024

Scientists Create a 3D Model of Lost Temple Relief from a 134-Year-Old Photo Using AI

The researchers developed a neural network that can take a single 2D photo of a three-dimensional…

5 October 2024

Artificial intelligence is Detecting New Archaeological Sites in the Arabian desert

A team of researchers at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi has developed a machine-learning algorithm to…