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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Lidar + AI recognition might result in mapping everything out there. Researchers would have to spend time coming up with a way to rank potential sites for close examination instead of actually excavating things randomly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can imagine the conquistadors burned everyone and anything within its borders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I agree with your point, but most Mayan cities in the region had been depopulated (not enough water is one theory) hundreds of years before colonization.

Sorry to be that guy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

God I wish all those codices weren't burned. Or even that the surviving ones were made of sturdier material. Somehow even with all AI technology I'm not holding my breath for any digital reconstructions of those rotted lumps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While we're wishing, I kinda wish the Europeans had all died in a horrific shipwreck on the way over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A miraculous wind like what saved Japan from the Mongol invasions would indeed not have been uncalled-for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Or just a big dude who raped them all to death and took their money. Either way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago