![]() ![]() ![]() From Cairo, we traveled 40 miles south and almost 4,000 years back in time to the village of Lisht. Here and elsewhere, modern Egypt is built next to and often on top of ancient Egypt. Our journey took us past the most famous archaeological site on Earth, the Pyramids of Giza rising from the Egyptian desert. Archaeologist Sarah Parcak is a professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. We met her in Egypt doing what she loves most: digging in the dirt. Sarah Parcak is a professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. It's called space archaeology and it's transforming the field. Parcak uses satellite photos to locate ancient sites and she's finding them - thousands. Archaeologist Sarah Parcak says less than 10 percent of the Earth's surface has been explored, so she's leading the way to speed up the search. ![]() There's a lot of ground yet to be uncovered. Archaeologists often spend years digging and hoping they'll find the remnants of ancient civilizations. ![]()
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