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Google Earth Helps Find Ancient Ruins

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 8:15 am
by godgift1986
His eye was caught by unusual 'rectangular shadows' nearby. Curious, he analysed the image further, and concluded that the lines must represent a buried structure of human origin. Eventually, he traced out what looked like the inner courtyards of a villa.

Mori, who describes the finding on his blog, QuellĂ­ Della Bassa, contacted archaeologists, including experts at the National Archaeological Museum of Parma. They confirmed the find. At first it was thought to be a Bronze Age village, but an inspection of the site turned up ceramic pieces that indicated it was a Roman villa."

The story was originally found at News at Nature.com, the Best in Science Journalism, a pretty interesting site.

So now how many of you are off to play with Google Earth and Google Maps to see if you've got any ancient ruins in your backyard?



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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 8:16 am
by godgift1986
His eye was caught by unusual 'rectangular shadows' nearby. Curious, he analysed the image further, and concluded that the lines must represent a buried structure of human origin. Eventually, he traced out what looked like the inner courtyards of a villa.

Mori, who describes the finding on his blog, QuellĂ­ Della Bassa, contacted archaeologists, including experts at the National Archaeological Museum of Parma. They confirmed the find. At first it was thought to be a Bronze Age village, but an inspection of the site turned up ceramic pieces that indicated it was a Roman villa."

The story was originally found at News at Nature.com, the Best in Science Journalism, a pretty interesting site.

So now how many of you are off to play with Google Earth and Google Maps to see if you've got any ancient ruins in your backyard?



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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 1:45 pm
by articlemaster
I have used google earth earlier but never new that it also shows this kinda statistics.

Its great that google made it possible to show this kind of statistics and really eager to try it again.

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:39 am
by Kaiser
Jeez, is there anything you can't do with Google?

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:17 pm
by DavidDock
hello

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:35 am
by cathy dow
Sounds interesting.
have to check the full story.Without going through it and testing it , i would like to comment on it.
But the news seems pretty weird for me..

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:03 am
by FrankGLaw
I think the story was actually proven to be a hoax or something like that. It was a just a black box over the ocean that could have been hoaxed.

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:39 am
by spika
Interesting :lol:
Yo can always have big findings by Google earth :twisted:

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:28 am
by krisberggren
i don't think so., google earth is not yet been improvise and still the image are not complete and aligned well. so how....

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:31 pm
by mdamin76
I've once became addicted to Google Earth, but now no more using it.