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Some Guy Discovered 2000 New Archeological Sites In Saudi Arabia Using Google Earth
February 5, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui
Almost two thousand potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia have been discovered from an office chair in Perth, Australia, thanks to high-resolution satellite images from Google Earth. […] Kennedy scanned 1240 square kilometres in Saudi Arabia using Google Earth. From their birds-eye view he found 1977 potential archaeological sites […] Kennedy confirmed that the sites were vestiges of an ancient life by asking a friend in Saudi Arabia, who is not an archaeologist, to drive out to two of the sites and photograph them.
The idea that you can use Google Earth to find new things on this planet is just amazing.