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Using Google Earth to Find Ancient Cities

Posted by Matt in January 20th, 2008

Gone are the days of a fearless Indiana Jones battling through the jungle in search of ancient treasures. Today’s archaeologists are using high-tech tools - from NASA satellites to Google Earth - to do the hard work for them.

In 2005 the Internet search company Google launched its virtual globe Google Earth constructed from satellite images and aerial photography. The program quickly caught on with millions of users around the world keen to zoom in on their houses, their dream holiday destinations, and even unintentional pictures of boats and planes.

But then, as the story goes, an Italian computer programmer, Luca Mori, turned its use to archaeology. Using Google Earth, he found signs of a Roman villa buried beneath a riverbed. He contacted experts, who decided to excavate.

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Google Earth, Satellite Maps Boost Armchair Archaeology
Using freely available satellite data, experts and amateurs alike can search the world for potential dig sites from the comfort of their computer desks.

Google Earth: Find the Archaeology

Find the Archaeology is a game on the Google Earth community bulletin board where people post an aerial photograph of an archaeological site and users must

Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins : Nature News

Google Earth programme leads to remains of ancient villa. Manuela Catarsi Dall’Aglio, an archaeologist at the National Archaeological Museum of Parma.
www.nature.com/uidfinder/10.1038/news050912-6 - Similar pages


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