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22/09/2005
Google Earth; now aiding archeologists.
Google isn't only a words search engine, they have also made a highly detailed map search - Google Earth.
And Luca Mori recently discovered just how detailed it is.
The Italian computer programmer have found the remains of a hidden roman village after playing around on the map search.
As most others, when trying out this new feature, he started with a search for his own hometown, Sorbolo in Parma. But he found instead an unusually shadowed aeria on the pictures, and contacted local archeologists to determine what it might be.
After some time they found out what the shadowed aeria really had been.
- At first I thought it was just some dirt on the picture, but when I zoomed in on it, I saw that it was something hidden under the ground, says Mr. Mori
The dark ovalshaped shadow he'd found in the pictures turned out to be more than 500 meters long with small rectangular shadows nearby.
Experts from The National archeological museum in Parma found, after closer examination ancient ceramical remnants from the old village, wich today is a farming aeria.
- To start with they though that this place was from the bronze age, but after more examinations ceramic- and stoneremnants showed that it was a roman village built right before the bith of Jesus according to Luca Mori.
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