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I'm looking at looting photos from space, and there are people putting their lives on the line every day protecting their heritage. I call these people the real culture heroes.
Sarah Parcak
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There's always a little jump to your heart when you realize you've got looting.
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That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.
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You think looting is bad in Egypt, look at Peru, India, China. I've been told in China there are over a quarter-million archaeological sites, and most have been looted. This is a global problem of massive proportions, and we don't know the scale.
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Getting permission to use a drone in Egypt was problematical.
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The looters are using Google Earth, too. They're coming in with metal detectors and geophysical equipment. Some ask me to confirm sites.
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We want to excite the world about what's out there. But we don't want them to say, 'Oh, there are lots of sites in Egypt - let's loot.'
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Discoveries aren't made by one person exploring by themselves. And discoveries aren't made overnight. People don't see the thousands of hours that go into it.
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How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.
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Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.
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I am one of many people documenting damage and looting at ancient sites from space - it is such a crucial tool.
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People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.
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