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Using Google Earth to Find Ancient Cities

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hey-umm-guys-it's-over-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A story in the online site of the Aussie science mag Cosmos discusses how archaeologists are using sophisticated satellite images to find previously undiscovered cities. What 's really cool is how some are simply using Google Earth — and discovering all sorts of previously unknown sites!"

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  1. Why bother with the map? by SeanTobin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why bother with Google maps? Just let Google search for them.

    undiscovered ancient city

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