There’s so much rubbish archaeological TV – Channel 4’s latest piece on Atlantis hit new depths, and not just beneath the ocean – that when something genuinely interesting comes along it can be lost in the mix.
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Next Monday’s BBC program promises to be truly revelatory – not just because an American team have discovered some seventeen lost pyramids in Egypt, but because they used infrared technology from space to find them. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements have also been revealed by looking at the infra-red images.
This is similar to the same infrared technology I tried to use in the Andes a few years ago looking for Inca sites, when it was still early days for its use. Now that it’s getting more and more advanced, there will be some truly staggering finds in the next few years to come…….
BBC documentary Egypt’s Lost Cities and their report