# A Google engineer points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar and finds an unmapped Maya pyramid

> Source: <https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/11/11/a-google-engineer-points-48-ai-agents-at-nasa-lidar-and-finds-an-unmapped-maya-pyramid/>
> Published: 2026-11-11 21:27:39+00:00

A software engineer, writing at pietromiotti.com, used AI agents to go through public NASA lidar data and turn up a Maya site in Mexico that wasn’t in the Mexican government’s register. Lidar fires laser pulses through gaps in the jungle canopy and maps the ground underneath, so structures hidden by trees show up as shapes […]