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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. Re:I use Google Earth... by sgant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I submitted this story days ago, with more links and more information too.

    Guess one of the other editors didn't think it was that important. Should have waited until Zonks shift was going.

    But it's good that it finally made it to Slashdot as I think this is a very interesting story and use of internet technology.

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