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October 30, 2015

Amateur Discovery Confirmed by NASA

Filed under: Google Earth,History,Image Recognition — Patrick Durusau @ 1:45 pm

NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks by Ralph Blumenthal.

From the post:

High in the skies over Kazakhstan, space-age technology has revealed an ancient mystery on the ground.

Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks — geometric figures of squares, crosses, lines and rings the size of several football fields, recognizable only from the air and the oldest estimated at 8,000 years old.

The largest, near a Neolithic settlement, is a giant square of 101 raised mounds, its opposite corners connected by a diagonal cross, covering more terrain than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Another is a kind of three-limbed swastika, its arms ending in zigzags bent counterclockwise.

Described last year at an archaeology conference in Istanbul as unique and previously unstudied, the earthworks, in the Turgai region of northern Kazakhstan, number at least 260 — mounds, trenches and ramparts — arrayed in five basic shapes.

Spotted on Google Earth in 2007 by a Kazakh economist and archaeology enthusiast, Dmitriy Dey, the so-called Steppe Geoglyphs remain deeply puzzling and largely unknown to the outside world.

Two weeks ago, in the biggest sign so far of official interest in investigating the sites, NASA released clear satellite photographs of some of the figures from about 430 miles up.

More evidence you don’t need to be a globe trotter to make major discoveries!

A few of the satellite resources I have blogged about for your use: Free Access to EU Satellite Data, Planet Platform Beta & Open California:…, Skybox: A Tool to Help Investigate Environmental Crime.

Good luck!

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