![]() "She's working in an area that the world really cares about," he says. Devin White, a senior research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who's worked with Parcak for more than a decade says Parcak's reputation isn't just a matter of being both an early evangelist of the technique and being good at her job, it also helps that she's working in Egypt. ![]() ![]() Parcak isn't the first space archeaologist, but she's perhaps the most well-known. “I won-I mapped Tanis,” she says, referring to the once-lost Egyptian city made famous in Raiders of the Lost Ark. According to TED, Parcak has helped find 17 potential pyramids, upwards of 3,000 settlements, and 1,000 lost tombs-and that's just in Egypt. But in the last decade, higher-resolution imagery has triggered a boom in archaeological discoveries. The field has been around since the early 1980s, when NASA hired its first archaeologist, Tom Sever, to exploit new satellite technology. Parcak is among a small but growing number of researchers using this technology to find potential excavation sites. ![]() ![]() Instead, they use satellite imagery, taken by spacecraft whizzing 400 miles above Earth’s surface, to find things buried within the planet's crust. Space archaeologists don’t actually work in space. ![]()
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