Cold War-Era CORONA Spy Satellite Imagery Has Revealed Lost Ancient Cities

[Fansome]

http://www.matthewaid.com/post/83855207687/cold-war-era-corona-spy-satellite-imagery-has-revealed

[Antennae]

Cool. As I understand it, the images see ruins that have since been covered by cities or other stuff? 

[BoomboxDX]

In the one black and white photo about halfway down the page (Tell Hamoukar), you can see a gridwork of what appears to be slight depressions in the ground, they look like shadowy lines in the middle of the picture.  I think that's what they're referring to. The shadowy lines may be evidence of ancient roads or canals, long since filled in or eroded.

[Antennae]

Thanks, I see two shadowy parallel lines. Is that them?
Its a mind trip. Ancient human evidence that has been there for eons is covered up by modern humanity's population explosion.

[Pigmeat]

They found what they think was a school for scribes there. A small cuneiform tablet was uncovered.  It translates roughly to, "Why is old man Fansome always pickin' on me?"

It was signed "Methuselah". Do you think?...Nah........

[BoomboxDX]

Thanks, I see two shadowy parallel lines. Is that them?
Its a mind trip. Ancient human evidence that has been there for eons is covered up by modern humanity's population explosion.

yeah, I think those shadowy parallel lines are remnants -- slight depressions -- left from ancient streets. If you look closely you'll see a lot of them in the middle of the picture.

When aerial photography began to be a big new thing early in the 20th century, geographers and geologists noticed things about the topography you wouldn't normally notice from the ground. In many cases, you could see the traces of ancient riverbeds, and in Britain, old roads and stuff..

[Pigmeat]

A lot of British pilot/observer training in the WWI took place on the Salisbury Plain. They were stunned by the features that couldn't be seen from the ground.

When the British received their post-war Mandate over Palestine, the Trans-Jordan and Iraq, aerial archaeology came into it's own. The dry climate and minimal water erosion preserved thousands of years cultural accumulation on or near the surface.

An American archaeologist using a small drone recently found a major Chacoan outlier in New Mexico. Drones look like the affordable wave of the future in aerial archaeology.

[Antennae]

Fascinating. High tech to find stone age.