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Mar 21 Blog

Archaeologists Use Satellites to Identify Thousands of Sites in Syria

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

A recent innovative project combining 1960s spy-satellite photography, multispectral images and digital maps of the Earth’s surface has mapped 14,000 settlements across 8,880 square miles […]

Jul 10 Blog

Spying on the Past: Declassified Satellite Images and Archaeology

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

This unique exhibit showcases declassified images taken by U.S. government spy satellites in the 1960s that are now being used by archaeologists to locate and better understand ancient sites in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Peru. Through these bird's-eye-view photographs, which are both visually captivating and teeming with archaeological information, visitors can detect the well-formed irrigation canals around the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh in Iraq, or the ancient tracks and roadways that still radiate out from the Bronze Age mound of Tell Brak in Syria.

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