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What we did is we used NASA topography data to map out the landscape, very subtle changes. We started to be able to see where the Nile used to flow.
- Sarah Parcak
#Data
#Flow
#Landscape
#Map
#See
I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that?
- Sarah Parcak
#Anything
#Cooler
#Find
#Pyramids
#Space
Google Earth is an incredible resource because from hundreds of miles in space, we can zoom in, and we can find things. Everyone always looks for their house first. That is the tip of the iceberg with remote sensing.
- Sarah Parcak
#Earth
#Find
#Google
#House
#Space
I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.
- Sarah Parcak
#Behavior
#Environmental
#Hope
#Work
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.
- Sarah Parcak
#Cold
#Credit
#Path
#War
#Young
Looting and site destruction are global problems. We have a tough road ahead, and one key will be developing more collaborations and using new technologies like satellite imagery.
- Sarah Parcak
#Ahead
#New
#Problems
#Road
#Tough
A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
- Sarah Parcak
#About
#People
#Politics
#Present
#Talk
The most exciting moment as an archaeologist happened when I was looking at the great archaeology site of Tannis, which of course we all know from 'Indiana Jones.' We got satellite imagery of the city of Tannis, we processed it, and literally from thousands of miles away from my lab in Alabama, we were able to map the entire city.
- Sarah Parcak
#City
#Great
#Know
#Looking
#Moment
What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn't changed since we've been human.
- Sarah Parcak
#Amazing
#Human
#Me
#Realize
#Us
I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and locate them quickly is from satellites.
- Sarah Parcak
#Ancient
#Map
#Only
#Predict
#Way
Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis.
- Sarah Parcak
#Analysis
#Change
#Field
#Map
#Weather
How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.
- Sarah Parcak
#Baseball
#City
#Find
#Finding
#Landscape
To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist.
- Sarah Parcak
#Dream
#Every
#Pyramid
I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.
- Sarah Parcak
#Dig
#Never
#Play
#Pretty
#Sand
Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?
- Sarah Parcak
#Egypt
#Past
#Race
#Time
#Why
In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.
- Sarah Parcak
#Everything
#House
#Past
#Temple
#Time
A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.
- Sarah Parcak
#Image
#Million
#Picture
#Words
#Worth
Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.
- Sarah Parcak
#Archaeology
#Understanding
#Where
#Who
Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.
- Sarah Parcak
#Architecture
#Art
#Great
#Religion
#Time
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