Did you know a lot of important archaeological places in the world that was found using satellites accessible with ordinary tools like Google Earth or Google Map?
As reported by the Telegraph, there are 17 pyramids, tomb 1000, and 3000 ancient lost settlements in Egypt discovered using satellite tech infrared rays on Wednesday (25 / 5).
But before that, in February last an archaeologist to identify about 2,000 suspected archaeological site is very important in Saudi Arabia just by using Google Earth.
David Kennedy, professor of classical studies and ancient history at the University of Western Australia using Google Earth to determine the site early 1977, a grave stone.
While in September 2010, found a steep crater in the middle of the desert of Egypt. Crater Crater, later named Kamil was allegedly created by a meteor hit.
Not only that, in February 2009 using Google's Ocean a street pattern was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean near Africa. Debris rectangular area whose size is equivalent to the country of Wales was suspected as the lost city of Atlantis.
Back to August 2009 a security officer claimed to find a legendary monster, Loch Ness while fiddling with Google Earth. Received a report that Google then promised to review it more carefully imaging results.
Another unique discovery occurs when a user inadvertently Google Maps to find a symbol that is similar to hero Batman symbol (bat signal) in the United States military bases in Okinawa, Japan.
So good image provided by Google was then led to the U.S. defense department prohibits those pages take satellite images of U.S. military facilities.
The Pentagon said Google's satellite imagery can be a serious threat to the U.S. military. Before that Google actually had time to take a picture of a military base in Texas.
