I ran across this article while browsing NationalGeographic.com earlier, and it combines some of my favorite things, namely, NG, archeology, and Google Earth.
I've mentioned it plenty of times before, but for anyone not familiar with Google Earth, it's a free piece of software that you can download to your Mac of PC and allows you to explore the World from your desktop. It uses satellite images and broadband streaming to send you some detailed images of just about any place on the planet. On top of that, the Google Earth Community has added hundreds of plug-ins, locational information, and more to increase the usefulness of the software even further.
Now, according to the article, archeologists are using the program to scout potential dig locations and to observe current digs or other locations of interest from a birds-eye view. The article even states that one archeologist, Sarah Parcak from the University of Alabama-Birmingham, has found more than a hundred previously unknown sites in the Egypts Delta and Nile Valleys. Amazing stuff.
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