To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:04:53 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] seeing into the past
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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Satellites Uncover Ancient Mideast Road Networks
NYT January 28, 2003
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Excerpt:

In photographs taken by once-secret American surveillance
satellites, traces of the buried past show through the arid
surface of the Middle East like pentimento. The traces are
as intriguing to archaeologists as the ghostly painted-over
layers on a canvas are to art historians.

Examining the pictures in detail, archaeologists have found
sites of ancient settlements that had previously escaped
detection. They have begun to map the vanished roads that
stretched across the landscape 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/science/social/28ROAD.html

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