Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/02/giant-archaeological-trove-fou.html

by djwebb1977 • 15 years ago

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aw3c2• 15 years ago

* 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.

a5huynh• 15 years ago

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!

jackfoxy• 15 years ago

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.

Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth

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