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3 unusual facts about Sarah Parcak


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Project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya."

Sarah Parcak

Sarah Parcak (born Bangor, Maine), Associate professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory for Global Observation at the University of Alabama, is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist, who uses satellite imaging to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt and Rome.

On December 31, 2013, she was the focus of Dan Snow's documentary "Rome's Lost Empire" on BBC Four, prospectively identifying several potentially significant sites including the arena at Portus; the lighthouse and a canal alongside the river Tiber directly to Rome.



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