Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak Uses Satellites to Uncover Ancient Egyptian Ruins
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- Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak Uses Satellites to Uncover Ancient Egyptian Ruins
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- Sarah Parcak | Smithsonian Magazine’s 2016 American Ingenuity Award Winner for History This tech-savvy researcher of our past uses satellites and other remote-sensing tools to discover and explore stunning new evidence of lost cultures—including, just this year, another possible Viking site in North America. In addition, she has located an astonishing number of ancient Egyptian remains—thousands of settlements, lost tombs and hidden pyramids. A Yale- and Cambridge-trained Egyptologist and archaeologist, Parcak is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she serves as founding director of the Laboratory for Global Observation. Read more about Parcak’s work: http://smithmag.co/ZuwTGP | #IngenuityAwards And more about the American Ingenuity Awards: http://smithmag.co/77xPqy
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- "Smithsonian Magazine" "History and Archaeology" "People and Places" "Science and Nature" "Arts and Culture" Travel Smithsonian "Smithsonian Institution"
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