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The most exciting moment as an archaeologist happened when I was looking at the great archaeology site of Tannis, which of course we all know from ‘Indiana Jones.’ We got satellite imagery of the city of Tannis, we processed it, and literally from thousands of miles away from my lab in Alabama, we were able to map the entire city.

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I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been walking over an archaeological site. And you can’t see anything on the ground, and pull back hundreds of miles in space, and all of a sudden you can see streets and roads and houses and even pyramids.

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A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

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June 5, 2024

A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

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June 5, 2024

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been walking over an archaeological site. And you can’t see anything on the ground, and pull back hundreds of miles in space, and all of a sudden you can see streets and roads and houses and even pyramids.

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