"Space Archeology" Uncovers Lost Pyramids

krou writes "A new technique dubbed 'space archeology' using satellites and infra-red imaging has helped uncover 17 new pyramids in Egypt, as well as some 1,000 tombs, and 3,000 ancient settlements. The mud bricks used to build Egyptian structures means it has a different density to the surrounding soil, and thus shows up in the images. Dr Sarah Parcak, who pioneered the technique, said that 'Indiana Jones is old school, we've moved on from Indy, sorry Harrison Ford.'"

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wtfe

[eyenot]

this isn't new.

like, two YEARS ago, they did the same thing and found all these cities and shit under the sahara desert. so the technique is nothing "new"-new, just "new-ish".

and i RESENT the tone of the article. this bullshit about archeaological techniques being outdated. the bitch is just overcompensating for the fact that no archaeology, ever, is EVER going to extract these finds from under the desert because you can't excavate a desert. it's impossible. we'll never, ever see the shit that's down there for real and she's just salty over it, and taking it out on her predecessors. she probably just winged through college with a 3-half or some shit and is jaded about real ACTUAL smart people who get shit done on their own. all she did was run up to a fucking arcade table "gimme gimme", grab the joystick and push the cursor over to Egypt. and then turn around and bitch at the people who were playing already when she ran up, and then pretended to have invented the fucking game.

fucking BITCH!