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The New Golden Age of Archaeology Is Right Now

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Narrowing her eyes , keen with years of research and experience, Sarah Parcak squints past the dust and sand. Hands out, Egypt's vast landscape at her fingertips, she's searching for clues that will lead her to something extraordinary, buried and missing for thousands of years. She and her team have been exploring the land for more than a year, looking for a settlement or structure that uncovers the ancient capital of Tanis. No one knows what it looks like, but Parcak has an idea. And she's getting close. Then suddenly, at the northeast region of the Nile Delta, administrative buildings, streets, palaces and houses of all sizes surface before her eyes. Parcak is excited. She has found Tanis. But she isn't actually in Egypt — she's thousands of miles away in her lab in Alabama, staring at processed, false color satellite imagery. It's an emerging trend in archaeology that enables people to make extremely important archaeological finds — before excavatin...

This awesome roaming city would actually work in real life

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This awesome roaming city would actually work in real life Architizer showcases  this awesome engineering and architectural project: a roaming city that would will  actually work  if someone builds it. In the past, some people have imagined roaming cities but nobody got to turn these pipe dreams into functional projects. This is the first one that actually makes sense. British architect Ron Herron  first proposed such an idea in the 1960s,  but it has taken five decades for someone to actually make a full project that takes into consideration every aspect needed to make it work—from the structural and power requirements to the social aspects of a life in a city on the move. S EXPAND S EXPAND It really looks awesome, like a city-sized Jawa Sandcrawler (see the tongue-in-cheek Death Star in the image above) or titanic NASA crawler-transporter, both of which inspired the caterpillar system of this  Very Large Structure  designed by Spanis...