Principia Wrote:
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> Parcak used the money to create a website
> dedicated to ... Peru ! That's right ... not
> geared toward Egyptology at all ... and it doesn't
> cost a $million for a website. Not to mention the
> website wasn't for any other discoveries, rather
> only an exercise for visitors to help review photo
> tiles from Google Earth and mark them as 'looting
> seems to have occurred' or not. That's it. I
> actually participated due to my high level of
> experience. The project was completed years ago.
Well: I guess her position is that this is a wider application following on from her original concern about looting sites in Egypt itself - [
www.journals.uchicago.edu]
> Being her home website, funny what's missing: Not
> a single peep about 17 new Egyptian pyramids !
Well, one page [
www.globalxplorer.org] does say:
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So far, Dr. Parcak’s techniques have helped locate 17 potential pyramids
(... but doesn't give any further information about them that would validate this claim).
Then that page goes on to say:
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she's also made significant discoveries in the Viking world
But it hasn't been updated to take account of [
www.cbc.ca] ...
...
> Further, the finding
> she claimed that ended up winning her the TED Talk
> prize in 2011 was already something I saw and
> tagged back in 2004. She didn't' discover'
> anything. It is south of the main Tanis
> excavations at San El Hagar:
>
> 30°58'09.08" N 31°53'08.42" E
>
> Best viewed in GE on your computer, not the online
> version. Cycle back the 'historical imagery' to
> about June of 2004.
>
> I was mapping out the nomes for a *.kml file
> creation and was looking at the main structure
> excavation at the north end of the site. My eye
> caught the rectangle in the south (about 80x200
> feet), and from there while zooming made out the
> other plethora of small square shapes littering
> the area. I didn't need enhanced,
> special-light-spectrum images from NASA. Those
> types of images were requested later by Parcak
> with the help of Alabama U, and used as crutches
> to win the TEDx.
It's rather vexing, to say the least, when this sort of thing happens ...
> I didn't throw what I saw into the public because
> I assumed archaeologists were already aware of the
> Tel's full un-farmed platform. It is typical for
> ancient sites to be left 'untouched' and are given
> away by the fact no one has farmed on them. In
> other words, the people of the delta _always_ knew
> something was there ...
>
> Btw, these types of Tel's are all over the delta.
> I have at least 10 I cannot reconcile with any
> literature.
Are you able to do anything with this particular material now?
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