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This Week in Tech: 'Space Archaeologist' Wins $1M TED Prize for Tracking Stolen Treasure

by Traci Bratton

November 16, 2015
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Archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses satellite images and scanning technology to track down humanity’s oldest treasures, but she's more than a modern-day Indiana Jones. The professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham can spot topographical and chemical changes to the earth's surface, clues to where cultural heritage sites may have been disturbed and to what extent, and whether the activity could indicate looting.

http://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/this-week-in-tech-archaeologist-uses-satellites-to-tracks-looting-of-heritage-sites_o

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