Roman Villa Discovered Via Google Earth

While searching around his hometown in Google Earth, Luca Mori stumbled on what looked like the meanders of an ancient river. On the satellite image, it looks like “prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long.”. However, his eye caught what he described as “rectangular shadows”. He led further analysis only to convince himself that these shadows could be nothing else than a human construction.

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3 responses to “Roman Villa Discovered Via Google Earth”

  1. Chris Samuel
    re: Roman Villa Discovered Via Google Earth

    Awsome, now that is the ultimate armchair archaeology!

    Shame there’s no Google Earth for Linux or Mac, have to stick with Google Maps instead..

    Chris

  2. Stephen Usher
    re: Roman Villa Discovered Via Google Earth

    Well, there’s always NASA’s World Wind program, which is apparently open source.

    OK, it doesn’t have the very high resolution stuff but it does have different bands.

  3. Stephen Usher
    Woldwind

    Bother.. I’ve just noticed that cross-platform stuff isn’t due until version 1.5, which is still only in planning.

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