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- Satellites Unearthing Ancient Egyptian Ruins
CNN Sarah Parcak's work with satellite images makes fairly regular appearences in the media. There's nothing really new here, but for those of you who haven't come across her work before the above article provides a good summary. Archaeologists...
- Ess Delta Survey Explores The Archaeology Of The Nile Delta With Google Earth
Egypt Exploration Society The satellite imagery available through Google Earth is a valuable resource for archaeological research. The program is free for download from the Web. Use the Latitude and Longitude coordinates for the archaeological sites included...
- Dispersal Of Pigs From The Near East
BBC News This is of no direct relevance to Egypt, but for those interested in the dispersal of agricultural components from the Near East to Europe and Egypt, this may be of some interest.The first domesticated pigs in Europe were introduced from the...
- Evidence Of Ancient Mega-lake In Northern Darfur
http://www.physorg.com/news94314522.htmlA bit of a stretch on the relevance front, but it might be of interest to anyone interested in north east African prehistoric climate: Researchers at the Boston University Center for Remote Sensing used recently...
- Satellite Technology Unveiling The Past
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/guy/213451,CST-FIN-eCol17.article "The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, known for antiquities scholarship, is using mapping software and spy-satellite photos to unravel the mysteries of how people lived,...
Egypt
New atlas to reveal archaeological sites
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New methods developed at the University of Arkansas will make decades-old satellite imagery readily available to archeologists and others who need to know what a landscape looked like before the spread of cities and agriculture. For the first time, archeologists can see three-dimensional views of the landscape of the Middle East from 40 years ago.
With a $338,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an award from the American Council of Learned Societies, Jesse Casana and Jackson Cothren will develop an archeological atlas of the Middle East that can easily be used with contemporary mapping applications to pinpoint locations.
In the current issue of Antiquity, Casana, an archeologist who focuses on the Middle East, and Cothren, a geoscientist specializing in geomatics, have published an account of the methods and examples of their work. Geomatics is the art, science and technologies related to the management of geographically referenced information including such areas as geographic information systems, remote sensing, cartography and surveying.
Using declassified images from a government satellite program called CORONA, the researchers are working with high-resolution digital scans distributed by the U.S. Geological Survey of film that was shot between 1967 and 1972. CORONA images from the final years of the program were taken with two cameras simultaneously.
See the above page for the full story.
- Satellites Unearthing Ancient Egyptian Ruins
CNN Sarah Parcak's work with satellite images makes fairly regular appearences in the media. There's nothing really new here, but for those of you who haven't come across her work before the above article provides a good summary. Archaeologists...
- Ess Delta Survey Explores The Archaeology Of The Nile Delta With Google Earth
Egypt Exploration Society The satellite imagery available through Google Earth is a valuable resource for archaeological research. The program is free for download from the Web. Use the Latitude and Longitude coordinates for the archaeological sites included...
- Dispersal Of Pigs From The Near East
BBC News This is of no direct relevance to Egypt, but for those interested in the dispersal of agricultural components from the Near East to Europe and Egypt, this may be of some interest.The first domesticated pigs in Europe were introduced from the...
- Evidence Of Ancient Mega-lake In Northern Darfur
http://www.physorg.com/news94314522.htmlA bit of a stretch on the relevance front, but it might be of interest to anyone interested in north east African prehistoric climate: Researchers at the Boston University Center for Remote Sensing used recently...
- Satellite Technology Unveiling The Past
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/guy/213451,CST-FIN-eCol17.article "The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, known for antiquities scholarship, is using mapping software and spy-satellite photos to unravel the mysteries of how people lived,...