Egypt
- Sarah Parcak Talking About Her Satellite Research
Exchange Magazine Video. In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archeology" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations. Sarah Parcak uses satellite...
- A Digital Eye Of Horus For Archaeologists
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Following the latest report about Sarah Parcak's work iwth satellites Vincent has provided a good summary of many other wasy in which archaeologists have been using satellite technology. As technology evolves at an...
- Hiding In Plain View - Identifying Sites From Satellite Photos
POPSCI.com A slideshow demonstrating how Sarah Parcak goes about finding ancient Egyptian sites using satellite photographs. I should warn you that the site was down over the weekend, and when it first came back up I was only able to access the first...
- Satellites Reveal Ancient Sites
The Birmingham News In a computer lab on Birmingham's Southside, UAB anthropology professor Sarah Parcak scours satellite images for hidden Egyptian archaeological sites half a world away. With the help of the new technology, Parcak and collaborators...
- Feature On Sarah Parcak
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=131567An piece about Sarah Parcak's work using modern technologies to locate new sites, particuarly in the Delta: "Her discovery of 100 new sites in Egypt, some dating as far back as 3000 B.C., certainly...
Egypt
New sites in Egypt spotted from space
http://www.livescience.com/history/070605_satellite_egypt2.html
More on Sarah Parcak's work with satellite images of Egypt: "Satellites hovering above Egypt have zoomed in on a 1,600-year-old metropolis, archaeologists say. Images captured from space pinpoint telltale signs of previous habitation in the swatch of land 200 miles south of Cairo, which digging recently confirmed as an ancient settlement dating from about 400 A.D. The find is part of a larger project aiming to map as much of ancient Egypt's archaeological sites, or 'tells,' as possible before they are destroyed or covered by modern development. 'It is the biggest site discovered so far,' said project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 'Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya.'
Another large city dating to 600 B.C. and a monastery from 400 A.D. are some of the four hundred or so sites that Parcak has located during her work with the satellites. The oldest dates back over 5,000 years.
Egypt contains a wealth of already identified archaeological tells like these, but even they represent only about 0.01 percent of what is out there still uncovered, Parcak said."
See the above page for the full story. There's a fascinating photograph on the page (click on it to enlarge it) of the The Great Aten Temple at Tell el-Amarna, Middle Egypt. The northern enclosure wall of the temple, which is actually buried beneath a modern cemetery, is visible in the satellite image.
More on Sarah Parcak's work with satellite images of Egypt: "Satellites hovering above Egypt have zoomed in on a 1,600-year-old metropolis, archaeologists say. Images captured from space pinpoint telltale signs of previous habitation in the swatch of land 200 miles south of Cairo, which digging recently confirmed as an ancient settlement dating from about 400 A.D. The find is part of a larger project aiming to map as much of ancient Egypt's archaeological sites, or 'tells,' as possible before they are destroyed or covered by modern development. 'It is the biggest site discovered so far,' said project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 'Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya.'
Another large city dating to 600 B.C. and a monastery from 400 A.D. are some of the four hundred or so sites that Parcak has located during her work with the satellites. The oldest dates back over 5,000 years.
Egypt contains a wealth of already identified archaeological tells like these, but even they represent only about 0.01 percent of what is out there still uncovered, Parcak said."
See the above page for the full story. There's a fascinating photograph on the page (click on it to enlarge it) of the The Great Aten Temple at Tell el-Amarna, Middle Egypt. The northern enclosure wall of the temple, which is actually buried beneath a modern cemetery, is visible in the satellite image.
- Sarah Parcak Talking About Her Satellite Research
Exchange Magazine Video. In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archeology" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations. Sarah Parcak uses satellite...
- A Digital Eye Of Horus For Archaeologists
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Following the latest report about Sarah Parcak's work iwth satellites Vincent has provided a good summary of many other wasy in which archaeologists have been using satellite technology. As technology evolves at an...
- Hiding In Plain View - Identifying Sites From Satellite Photos
POPSCI.com A slideshow demonstrating how Sarah Parcak goes about finding ancient Egyptian sites using satellite photographs. I should warn you that the site was down over the weekend, and when it first came back up I was only able to access the first...
- Satellites Reveal Ancient Sites
The Birmingham News In a computer lab on Birmingham's Southside, UAB anthropology professor Sarah Parcak scours satellite images for hidden Egyptian archaeological sites half a world away. With the help of the new technology, Parcak and collaborators...
- Feature On Sarah Parcak
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=131567An piece about Sarah Parcak's work using modern technologies to locate new sites, particuarly in the Delta: "Her discovery of 100 new sites in Egypt, some dating as far back as 3000 B.C., certainly...