Tag: ARCHAEOLOGY

With the aid of revolutionary technology, archaeologists continue to expose exciting historical discoveries. According to The New Scientist, University of Western Australia professor David Kennedy has utilized Google Earth in hopes of identifying archaeological sites, and he just may have stumbled across nearly two thousand potentially significant locations. Using the satellite software from ...

A Mexican tunnel that dates back two millennia has been fully explored for the first time by a robot. Named after the Aztec rain god, the Tlaloque 1 robot measures one foot wide, rolls on four sturdy wheels and boasts a video camera. Having traveled the 100-meter passageway, which may be the entrance to a tomb, the robot has given researchers hope of entering the tunnel themselves by December. ...

The 21st century has ushered the field of archaeology into a revolutionary renaissance period, as technological advances like lasers, infrared mapping and multi-spectral imaging now afford archaeologists with extraordinary methods of discovery and restoration. Science also allows history buffs and amateur bone-diggers -- in similarly unprecedented fashion -- to experience, enjoy and share in that ...

Robots are adept at many things, among them pouring beer and giving us nightmares. But oft overlooked is their ability to squeeze into tight spaces. Leeds University and the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt will be relying on a tiny bot, equipped with a drill, a camera and some lights, to weasel its way into tiny shafts and through doors in the Great Pyramid of Giza to discover what secrets ...

For archaeologists, the days of trudging through dense jungle to map out ancient sites by hand could soon be over. The New York Times reports that husband and wife team Dr. Arlen F. Chase and Dr. Diane Z. Chase recently used an Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper to provide 3-D images of ancient Mayan ruins in Caracol, Belize. "This will revolutionize the way we do settlement studies of the Maya," Dr. ...

This is not to say that scientists aren't cool. Really, it's not. But back in the day, when dank laboratories were festooned with wacky schematics and bright bubbling beakers, when workshops were cluttered with ratcheting Thing-A-Ma-Jigs and whirring What-Cha-Ma-Call-Its, scientists were really cool. And coolest among them, the James Deans of scientists, were the archaeologists and ...