Ancient Egyptian City Spotted From Space

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"It is the biggest site discovered so far," said project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya."

It's pretty cool to see some other uses of sattelite technolgy, besides spying

A lot of history can be saved thanks to this. I'm gonna his google earth and start prowling Egypt see ya later.

You can see the top left part of the wall is buried but the rest of the triangle extends out to the right even further.



[edit on 5-6-2007 by kleverone]