10 Amazing Archaeological Discoveries Made By Satellites!

From finding a lost city to uncovering the secrets of enormous stone megaliths, here are 10 archaeological discoveries made by satellites. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 10. The Lost City of Tanis The city of Tanis, which you may know from Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark, was once the capital city of Ancient Egypt but has long been lost to the sands of the desert. That was until archaeologists analyzed infrared satellite images of the region thanks to NASA, and discovered the ancient, lost city of Tanis. 9. Ancient Sites In Afghanistan Archaeologists rarely conduct excavations in Afghanistan, due to the country’s tumultuous political situation. But in late 2017, a team of U.S. and Afghan researchers found another way to investigate ruins: from a bird’s-eye view, by analyzing commercial satellite data, American spy satellite, and drone images. 8. Cold War Spy Photos In 1996, the Clinton administration declassified Cold War-era images taken by CORONA (popular name this year right??). But this was the first-ever image reconnaissance satellite, which was developed during the 1950s by Air Force, CIA, and private industry experts as a way to capture images of the Soviet Union, in hopes of identifying nuclear missile production facilities and launch sites. 7. Pre-Columbian Earthworks A recent drone survey over a Kansas field revealed the presence of a wide, eroded ditch on a bluff overlooking the Walnut River. The structure, which was filled in with topsoil and grass, and concealed by 400 years of exposure to the elements, once encircled a 21,000 square foot (2,000 meters2) area. 6. 8,000-Year-Old Lost Civilizations Archaeologists working in northeastern Syria recently detected 14,000 settlement sites thanks to digital maps of the Earth’s surface and digital elevation data collected by NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission and Cold War era spy-satellite images and remote sensing techniques. Technology and archaeology are now going hand in hand!! 5. Arabian Stone Monuments Saudi Arabia is not an easy place to get to for archaeologists but luckily, scientists are able to collaborate and have the advantage of satellite imagery. One of the most mysterious archaeological enigmas are the millions of stone structures found in Western Arabia making up different kinds of shapes. Called mustatils, they were first observed via satellite and are some of the biggest and oldest large scale structures in the world!!! 4. Madagascar’s Early Settlements Earlier this year, an international team of researchers found evidence of Madagascar’s earliest human inhabitants by scouring (skaw-ur-ing) through satellite imagery and other remote sensing data. One of the most surprising finds suggests that human populations benefited the land by migrating from the resource-rich areas they started out in to less suitable environments. 3. The Great Wall’s Northern Line Archaeologists recently mapped a section of the Great Wall of China, called the Northern Line or Genghis Khan’s Wall, using drones and high-resolution satellite images. The 460-mile (737 km) long wall runs across the Mongolian Steppe in Mongolia and parts of Russia and China and was built between the 11th and 13th centuries. 2. New Nazca Lines The Nazca Lines are a series of massive geoglyphs etched into Peru’s southern desert that were first spotted about a century ago. Since then, they’ve perplexed archaeologists, who have strived to make sense of the large carvings of birds, monkeys, humanoid figurines, and geometric shapes, which occupy a roughly 77-square-mile (200 km) area and date back between 200 B.C. and 500 A.D. 1. Destroyed Heritage Some of the most important discoveries that archaeologists make through satellite imagery entail not only historical artifacts, but also modern events that affect these sites. This was the case in 2015, when news headlines drew attention to the usefulness of this technology when it comes to detecting the looting and smuggling of archaeological sites in parts of the Middle East. #mysteriousdiscoveries #archaeologicaldiscoveries #satellitediscoveries #originsexplained