Using Google Earth to Find Ancient Cities 127
An anonymous reader writes "A story in the online site of the Aussie science mag Cosmos discusses how archaeologists are using sophisticated satellite images to find previously undiscovered cities. What 's really cool is how some are simply using Google Earth — and discovering all sorts of previously unknown sites!"
Re:WMD Found (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WMD Found (Score:3, Funny)
Nice, but. . . (Score:5, Funny)
It's laugably easy! (Score:5, Funny)
In just five minutes I found this weird ancient obelisk!
Obelisk [google.com]
Wow! A previously unknown sphinx!
Sphinx [google.com]
Some sort of ancient roadway system. It's a bit hard to make out.
Ancient trade routes [google.com]
Re:WMD Found (Score:3, Funny)
That's nothing... (Score:5, Funny)
date of the satellite images (Score:2, Funny)
The reason why these archaeologists are having so much success is because Google's satellite imagery is ancient!
I mean, rather than seeing some roads near my house all I see is dirt and trees!
Next movie in the series (Score:5, Funny)
What will they think of next? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nice, but. . . (Score:5, Funny)
Kansas (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Image stitching (Score:3, Funny)
Really? How come I can't see the thread marks? Oh, I bet they're using something like fishing line...