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Google Earth Used to Find Ancient Roman Villa

Posted by Zonk on from the i-have-a-pyramid-in-my-parking-lot dept.

cavehobbit writes "Google Earth leads to an archeology find, according to a Nature article. From the article: 'Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa. Luca Mori was studying maps of the region around his town of Sorbolo, near Parma, when he noticed a prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long. It was the meander of an ancient river ...' What's buried in your back yard?"

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  1. Next up from the Google Dog & Pony Show... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    WMD's in Iraq found!

  2. reminds me of the story... by blue_adept · · Score: 5, Funny

    A fellow used google maps to discover some ruins in his own back yard. while digging up the ruins, he comes across some cable, and tells his his neighbour "well there you have it, this proves that our ancient ancestors had internet".

    His neighbor replies "that's nothing, yesterday I used google to find some ruins in *my* backyard. When I dug them up, I didn't find ANY cable at all. That proves that our ancient ancestors had wireless".

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    "Is this just useless, or is it expensive as well?"