Nearly 2,000 potential archaeological site in Saudi Arabia managed to be explored by an archaeologist from Perth, Australia, David Kennedy, without a visit directly. This is thanks to the Google Earth application.
“I’ve never been to Saudi Arabia. That’s not an easy country to be penetrated,” says professor of archeology University of Western Australia is in talks to the Telegraph. Instead, Kennedy was scanning an area of 1240 square kilometers in Saudi Arabia using Google Earth.
From satellite images of high-resolution virtual world, he found at least 1977 potential archaeological sites, including as many as 1082 the ancient tomb made of stone.
According to Kennedy, making aerial photographs of Saudi Arabia can not be done by all archaeologists because of the complexity is high, even impossible to fly in the air the land. However, Google Earth can make them closer.
Since Google Earth was launched five years ago, the opportunity to develop “archeology from behind the desk” was wide open. Nonetheless, Kennedy asserted, field verification is needed. He has a staff in Saudi Arabia to verify the location of the site.
In 2008, researchers from Melbourne, Australia, discovered 463 potential archaeological sites in Registan Desert in Afghanistan only by using their computer
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