Okay this article about new pyramids found from space is just about the coolest thing ever. (You know you’re a special kind of geek when you’re more interested in pointing satellites at the earth to uncover hidden pyramids than you are at pointing it out at the stars.)
Egyptologists should shimmy and dance because it looks like archeology is about to get a major shot in the arm. Infra-red images of earth are revealing the outlines of houses, streets, and temples long lost beneath the desert sands.
“It just shows us how easy it is to underestimate both the size and scale of past human settlements,” says Dr Parcak.
Underestimation seems to be a common theme when it comes to antiquities. Just yesterday I listened to a scholar on the history channel profess astonishment that the Roman formulas for invisible ink actually work. I suspect we would be better off taking the ancients at their word about most things. Or at least giving them the benefit of the doubt.
That is so wickedly cool!
I wish I could use some of their images. I love the one that reveals all the streets of a very expansive city now totally lost to us…
COOL!
Okay, this is totally cool! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for tweeting it! I wonder what other things the satellites are going to help us find.
AWESOME! Did you also see the article about them sending in robots to excavate the Chamber of Secrets in the Great Pyramid? Are you telling me there’s no plot bunny in there? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028144.500-first-images-from-great-pyramids-chamber-of-secrets.html
Gah! I need no more plot bunnies right now. But this is also fascinating!
Are yours breeding like mad, too? Must be the season. 🙂
I hope we’ll get the money for some more aereal surveys here. There may yet be some Roman structures hidden under the wheat and potatoes. And in the woods, but it’s impossible to find then there if not by luck.
This is absolutely, amazingly cool! I can’t wait to see what they uncover.
That is sooooooooo AWESOME , i mean being able to discover those things to be able to learn more about the past is amazing!!!!
I heard about that, and it’s fascinating – as you say, not only for what they’ve already revealed, but what they might in the future. There’s some evidence that Egyptian civilisation may have been a continuation of an older culture in the Sahara, before the desert formed. If there are any substantial remains of that, they’d be hidden deep under the sand, and satelite images might reveal them.
Gosh, the potential! It has me aquiver 😉
As long as they don’t let Mr. Daenicken bring the aliens in again. 😛