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Archaeology
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Archaeology is a messy business. There's no getting away from it; digging holes in the ground is an part of archaeological work. But there is a new way to search without a shovel. Satellite images are now used to identify buried objects in landscapes with astonishing precision. In the same way that medical let doctors examine parts of the body they couldn't otherwise see, satellite images help scientists find and map long-lost rivers, roads and cities, and make archaeological features in places which are very difficult to survey from the ground. 'There's much we miss on the ground,' emphasises archaeologist Sarah Parcak, a pioneer in using satellite imagery. Through 'thousands of hours' of trial and Parcak has developed techniques using satellite imagery which allow her to detect changes in the surface of the land caused by objects like bricks buried underground. In 2011, her team discovered evidence of hundreds of dwellings at the 3,000 year old city of Tanis near the River Nile delta in Egypt. This might have taken a century using traditional methods.
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