![]() ![]() Parcak isn't the first space archeaologist, but she's perhaps the most well-known. “I won-I mapped Tanis,” she says, referring to the once-lost Egyptian city made famous in Raiders of the Lost Ark. According to TED, Parcak has helped find 17 potential pyramids, upwards of 3,000 settlements, and 1,000 lost tombs-and that's just in Egypt. But in the last decade, higher-resolution imagery has triggered a boom in archaeological discoveries. ![]() The field has been around since the early 1980s, when NASA hired its first archaeologist, Tom Sever, to exploit new satellite technology. ![]() Parcak is among a small but growing number of researchers using this technology to find potential excavation sites. Instead, they use satellite imagery, taken by spacecraft whizzing 400 miles above Earth’s surface, to find things buried within the planet's crust. Space archaeologists don’t actually work in space. ![]()
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