Thousands of Archaeological Sites Discovered with Google Earth

Recently, Google has started making short video, you can call them ads, to highlight some of the ways people use its products for extraordinary results, from winning $1 million to discovering supernovae to unearthing archaeological sites.

In the latest such video, Google tells the story of Professor David Kennedy, a Roman archaeologist at the University of Western Australia.

He used Google Earth and the satellite imagery Google provides to discover thousands of sites in the Middle East, scanning the desert for Roman ruins.

He ended up finding a lot more than Roman sites, some of the things he discovered may be 9,000 years old.

Google Earth enabled him to scan huge areas of desert from his office, but it also allowed him access to regions where aerial imagery would be impossible to come by.