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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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