Archaeology via Internet

[mirrorshard]

Via boing boing - "Google Earth turns up Roman ruin in blogger's back yard".

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/17/google_earth_turns_u.html

Looking for shadows like this is a standard technique, because the shadow makes the buried archaeology stand out by highlighting the height difference.

But it's normally done either by overflying in an actual plane, or buying satellite time, which gets expensive.

Comments

[unsomnambulist.livejournal.com]

That's insanely amazing. ;)