The New Golden Age of Archaeology Is Right Now
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...