Okay some great images of areas of interest
More work for the weary to catch up documenting it all Any volounteers?
Now lets put this in context...
To be able to decide if any of those markings show cities or more likely ancient cities it is good to have a look somewhere where we have examples to
compare to...
So lets have a look at Earth... and the Moon
#1
The ancient Khorezmian fortress Koy-Krylgan-kala appeared as an impact crater on the air photo (left); its artificiality is obvious after the
excavations in 1956
#2 The air view of the Ancient Assyrian ruins of Assur before they were excavated... (they resemble the lunar lattice below)
#3 The example of a wafer find (image LHD5472Q.287) on the Moon
#4 Simulation of probable HIRES view of ancient settlement on the Moon (left). The erosion wipes off the surface tracks of construction (center), but
the SAAM processing could reveal the rectangular anomaly (right).
Now what is IMPORTANT in the above analysis is who is doing the work...
SETI
On Lunar Archeology
Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Moon: Results of SAAM Project
Dr. Alexey V. Arkhipov (rai @ ira.kharkov.ua)
Institute of Radio Astronomy, Nat. Acad. Sci. of Ukraine
spsr.utsi.edu...
Alexey V. Arkhipov is a researcher at the Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, and an Assistant professor at
National Kharkov University. He has a Ph.D. in astrophysics and radio astronomy (Main Astronomical Observatory at the National Academy of Sciences of
the Ukraine, Kyiv, 1998). The title of his dissertation was "New approaches to the problem of search for extra-terrestrial intelligence." He is a
member of the SETI Center (Moscow), the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR), and the SETI section of the Council on Astronomy of the Russian
Academy ofSciences.
I have tracked all this on Pegasus' page
INCA CITY
But we have another great tool we can use...
Google Earth
One really interesting thing about satellite images is that they can spot things that are buried... You can actually see the "silk road' in the
sand from space... thousands of years of camels and people walking on it and leaving droppins etc shows up from space.
I use this fact to snoop around military bases... for signs of old excavation... try it you will easily see the tell tale signs
but more important is the relevance to this thread...
So I will use the site in Iraq... the Ancient City of UR
UR is perfect because they have some sections completely dug out... some partially dug out... some just started and many not touched at all...
But the ones not touched at all SHOW UP ON GOOGLE EARTH
The material of buried walls is denser so moisture and temperature make slight differences in the surface soil... and this can be seen...
Now UR just happens to be right in the middle of Tallil AFB and Saddam's old weapons area... so there are lots of buried missile installations and
bunkers to look at too
+30° 57' 38.98", +46° 6' 23.35"