Archaeologists Use AI to ‘Dig Deeper’
<p>Dr. Gino Caspari is a research archaeologist for the Swiss National Science Foundation, and his work focuses on the ancient <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scythian" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Scythians</a>, a nomadic people from 3,000 years ago with a rich culture and commanding empire, centered in modern-day Crimea. The tombs of Scythian royalty contained great wealth, and so, they were popular targets for tomb robbers. Caspari estimates that over 90 percent of those burial sites have now been destroyed.</p>
<p>However, Dr. Caspari believes that there are still thousands of tombs across the Eurasian steppes, which extend for millions of square miles. He mapped burial sites using Google Earth images of territory in modern-day Russia, Mongolia, and Western China’s Xinjiang province. “It’s essentially a stupid task,” Dr. Caspari lamented. “And that’s not what a well-educated scholar should be doing.”</p>
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