Satellite Images And Drones Used To Find Huge Monument Previously Hidden: Petra

Archaeologists Just Used Satellites and Drones to Find a Huge Hidden Monument at Petra

Matt Hershberger | June 10, 2016

Petra is already one of the most beautiful and mystifying places in the world, but the Jordanian heritage site just got a little bit more mysterious. Archaeologists, using satellite and drone imagery, have discovered a new monument that’s approximately the size of an Olympic swimming pool “hiding in plain sight.”

"An overhead image of the monument photographed from a drone, and a detail overlay of the surface features in which the image is rotated 90 degrees clockwise." Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/space-archaeology-satellite-petra-ancient-city-discovery-jordan-monument/

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