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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. link to villa by Polo · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think this link should show the villa:

    http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.881446,10.421513 &spn=0.007150,0.007532&t=k&hl=en

  2. Link to the exact location by YA_Python_dev · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yah I just noticed I linked to the map view rather then the satellite view.

    Yeah, right. FYI this is the link to the exact location.

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    There's a hidden treasure in Python 3.x: __prepare__()
  3. Keyhole/Google Earth location file by jgaynor · · Score: 3, Informative

    I made up a quick-n-dirty keyhole file of the place:

    http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jgaynor/random/slashdo t-09-16-05.kmz

    For the paranoid, feel free to save it and then open it up from within Google Earth. For the rest of us just launch it directly.

  4. Google Maps doesn't have the resolution by dlleigh · · Score: 3, Informative

    You have to use Google Earth to get the nice six inch resolution which allows you to see the dish.