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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 30 quotes by Sarah Parcak Sarah Helen Parcak (born Bangor, Maine), assistant professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory for Global Observation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is an American archaeologist, space archaeologist, and Egyptologist, who uses satellite imaging to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt and Rome. In partnership with her husband, Dr. Greg Mumford, she directs Survey and Excavation Projects in the Fayoum, Sinai,... Read full biography of Sarah Parcak → 1 2 3 Ctrl → To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist. 0 We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in... → 0 If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time. 0 When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to... → 0 I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of... → 0 Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching... → 0 There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you... → 0 We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by... → 0 When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents... → 0 I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world. 0 It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist. 0 Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral... → 0 If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out the... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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