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Satellites spot Egyptian metropolis – deemed 1,600 years old

Satellites spot Egyptian metropolis - deemed 1,600 years old

The satellites seem to be doing well with their scanning eyes, sometimes spotting bizarre weather patterns over oceans and sometimes making new discoveries of ancient trails. But, this time, it was the turn for the archaeological satellites to prove their bits.

They have zoomed-in on a metropolis while hovering above Egypt. Amazingly, the metropolis is found to be 1,600 years old!

A swatch of land 200 miles south of Cairo, space-captured images reveal previous habitation in the region. It is an ancient settlement dating from about 400 A.D., making it the biggest site discovered till date.

Explaining the find, project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham said,

Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya.

Parcak is the first archaeologist to use satellite technology for making space imagery in Egypt helping her to identify points of interest on a large scale.

According to LiveScience, Parcak said,

There are thousands of settlements that Egyptians don’t even know are there. Nothing will ever destroy the Pyramids or the Temple of Luxor, but these huge settlement sites where we get a lot of information are being threatened. And that’s how we find out how people lived.

With only about 0.01 percent of archaeological sites being discovered, compared to what is thought to be still remaining uncovered, it seems, satellites would be of great help in making such discoveries.

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