Posted: 28 May 2011 12:46 PM PDT
Sarah
Parcak, an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of
Alabama, Birmingham, is featured on an upcoming documentary on BBC
entitled “Egypt’s Lost Cities“. The Egyptologist analyzed satellite
imagery to identify over 17 pyramids, 1,000 tombs, and 3,000 ancient
settlements previously unknown. Her team used infra-red imagery to
differentiate the denser mud brick material buried under Egyptian [...]
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