Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth

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Post by djwebb1977 » Sat, Feb 05, 2011, 2:57 PM UTC

Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth
newscientist.com

Re: Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth

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Post by aw3c2 » Sat, Feb 05, 2011, 4:45 PM UTC

* potential!

I am disappointed that there is no image of the aerial imagery nor the ground. At least the photo looks 99% like generic stock footage.

The commemts seem to be spammers.

Re: Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth

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Post by a5huynh » Sat, Feb 05, 2011, 5:30 PM UTC

On a related note, National Geographic has been doing a similar thing for the past couple years:

http://exploration.nationalgeographic.com/

Just this past summer they went to Mongolia and used data from that little game to find tons of tombs and even an ancient city!

Re: Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth

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Post by jackfoxy » Sat, Feb 05, 2011, 7:59 PM UTC

To the best of my knowledge, Saudi Arabia is completely closed to archaeology due to the state religion (happy to be corrected on this one). If it ever does open up it will become a fantastic treasure trove of knowledge: all sites never before excavated (by scientists) and the location astride the cross-roads of all the old-world continents.