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To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist.
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Pyramid
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Getting permission to use a drone in Egypt was problematical.
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Egypt
Permission
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I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge.
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Cambridge
Soccer
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I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that?
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Space
Pyramids
Cooler
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Indiana Jones is old school; we've moved on from Indy. Sorry, Harrison Ford.
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Indiana
Moved On
Sorry
Old School School Old
School Old School Old
Ford
Harrison Ford
Indiana Jones
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Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively.
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Imagery
Looting
Patterns
Effectively
Map
Satellite
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There's always a little jump to your heart when you realize you've got looting.
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Looting
Heart Always Your
Jump
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A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.
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Dollars
Million Dollars
Thousand
Words Picture Worth
Words
Picture
Image
Million
Picture Is Worth
Satellite
Thousand Words
Worth
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Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.
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Archaeology
Understanding
Come
Holds
Where
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I'm an Egyptologist. I'm a remote sensing specialist, and I'm a space archaeologist.
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Sensing
Remote
Specialist
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I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.
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Sand
Dig
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It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.
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Indiana
National Geographic
Geographic
Indiana Jones
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I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.
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Grandfather
Professor
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I am one of many people documenting damage and looting at ancient sites from space - it is such a crucial tool.
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Ancient
Crucial
Damage
Looting
Documenting
Sites
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I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.
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Features
Archaeological
Sites
Surprised
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A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
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Archaeology
Crucial
Talk
Part
Present
Surprised
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That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.
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Ancient
Discovery
Engaged
Protecting
Sites
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People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.
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Buried
Egypt
Looting
Tombs
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We want to excite the world about what's out there. But we don't want them to say, 'Oh, there are lots of sites in Egypt - let's loot.'
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Egypt
Excite
Sites
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We emphasise the features on satellite maps by adding colours to farmland, urban structures, archaeological sites, vegetation and water.
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Farmland
Features
Maps
Urban
Vegetation
Adding
Archaeological
Colours
Satellite
Sites
Structures
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The looters are using Google Earth, too. They're coming in with metal detectors and geophysical equipment. Some ask me to confirm sites.
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Equipment
Google
Confirm
Detector
Metal
Sites
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Looting speaks to a lack of economic opportunities - frankly, we all would loot, too, if our families' continued survival depended on it.
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Looting
Survival
Depended
Economic Opportunities
Families
Frankly
Opportunities
Speaks
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Choosing an unconventional career path - I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it.
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Career Path
Stuck
Unconventional
Choosing
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If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.
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Egypt
Moved
Nile
Map
River
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We're literally just beginning to learn how to use satellites to find sites. More and more people are realizing there's this incredible tool.
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Realizing
Satellites
More And More
Sites
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The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses - clear as day.
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Complexes
Streets
Buildings
Houses
Map
Requires
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You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.
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Dig
Exactly What
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WorldView-3 goes into the mid-infrared wavelength, allowing you to see very subtle geological differences on the sites at a 0.4-metre resolution.
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Allowing
Differences
Resolution
Subtle
Wavelength
Geological
Goes
Sites
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I am part of a network of people monitoring what's happening at ancient sites in Iraq and Syria - from space. We can see clearly the destruction.
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Ancient
Destruction
Monitoring
Syria
Network
Sites
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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.
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Data
Flow
Landscape
Nasa
Nile
Subtle
Topography
Map
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The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most important thing is to encourage and mentor students.
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Archaeological
Most Important Thing
Professor
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Satellite datasets like WorldView can see objects as small as 1.5 feet in diameter. In 2014, WorldView-3 will be able to see objects a small as a foot.
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Worldview
Foot
Satellite
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Discoveries aren't made by one person exploring by themselves. And discoveries aren't made overnight. People don't see the thousands of hours that go into it.
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Exploring
People Person See
Discoveries
Overnight
Thousands
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When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing.
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Archaeology
Percent
Prior
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We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests, or soil.
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Features
Forests
Modernization
Satellites
Soil
Cultural
Map
Obscured
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We have so many thousands of sites to find across the globe and new techniques to test. The field keeps evolving with the technology, which makes things exciting.
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Technology New Find
Evolving
Sites
Techniques
Test
Thousands
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We only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed. So we have to be really selective about where we dig.
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Amount
Destroyed
Left
Selective
Time Where World
Archaeological
Dig
Sites
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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.
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Buried
Landscape
Vast
Equivalent
Needle
Randomly
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'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.
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Archaeology
Cities
Features
Nasa
Resolution
Discover
Geological
Map
Satellite
Structures
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I try to tell a lot of stories to make my students aware that the world is a very cool place with many problems that need solving, and that they all can help solve them.
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Solving
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I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.
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Losing
Rate
Stuck
Tiny
Rapid
Sites
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Unveiled
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I'm looking at looting photos from space, and there are people putting their lives on the line every day protecting their heritage. I call these people the real culture heroes.
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Heritage
Looting
Protecting
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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.
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Ancient
Archaeology
Objects
Context
Reconstruct
Temple
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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.
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Environmental
Crisis
Economic Crisis
Human Behavior
Long Term
Patterns
Thrive
Survive
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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.
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Destruction
Developing
Imagery
Looting
Site
Collaborations
New Technologies
Satellite
Technologies
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We can tell from the imagery a tomb was looted from a particular period of time, and we can alert INTERPOL to watch out for antiquities from that time that may be offered for sale.
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Imagery
Particular
Alert
Period
Watch
Offered
Tomb
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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.
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Ancient
Satellites
Predict
Globe
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Locate
Map
Sites
Thousands
Undiscovered
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Imagery is powerful. Imagery is provocative - satellite imagery much more so because it is from space, and it allows us to get this perspective that we don't have to have otherwise.
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Imagery
Perspective
Provocative
Satellite
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Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity's shared story.
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Heritage
Immense
Looting
Cultural
Shared
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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?
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Modernization
Population
Tools
Why Not
Advanced
Map
Quantify
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