Egypt
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
Satellite technology used to find sites
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2037531,00.html
Article about Sarah Parcak's work using satellite imagery in Egypt (published in full in the EES magazine Egyptian Archaeology): "Satellite technology has more than doubled the number of ancient sites known in part of the Nile valley, a new study shows. Although most of the sites date from Roman times rather than from the Pharaonic period, the dramatic increase suggests reasons why earlier sites have remained undetected.The survey was carried out on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the famous abandoned city of Tell el-Amarna or Akhetaten, the short-lived capital of the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten in the 14th century BC. A sample area of 30km by 15km was chosen: Napoleon’s survey of 1798 had noted 12 sites in the area, and by 2004 the number had risen to only 23. . . . Even relatively late periods such as the Roman were often covered by many feet of Nile silts: at Kiman Zeit the Roman layers were 5m (16ft) below the surface. See the complete article for more - this is the second piece on the page, so you will need to page down beyond the article on stone age art in Europe to find it."
Article about Sarah Parcak's work using satellite imagery in Egypt (published in full in the EES magazine Egyptian Archaeology): "Satellite technology has more than doubled the number of ancient sites known in part of the Nile valley, a new study shows. Although most of the sites date from Roman times rather than from the Pharaonic period, the dramatic increase suggests reasons why earlier sites have remained undetected.The survey was carried out on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the famous abandoned city of Tell el-Amarna or Akhetaten, the short-lived capital of the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten in the 14th century BC. A sample area of 30km by 15km was chosen: Napoleon’s survey of 1798 had noted 12 sites in the area, and by 2004 the number had risen to only 23. . . . Even relatively late periods such as the Roman were often covered by many feet of Nile silts: at Kiman Zeit the Roman layers were 5m (16ft) below the surface. See the complete article for more - this is the second piece on the page, so you will need to page down beyond the article on stone age art in Europe to find it."
See the Times article for details of the satellite technology used, and how the manipulated images were tested in the field.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...