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INDIANA JONES, put down your whip. These days all you need to scour the globe for archaeological sites is a desktop computer.
David Kennedy of the University of Western Australia has discovered almost 2000 potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia from his office chair in Perth – and all it took was Google Earth’s high-resolution satellite images. “I’ve never been to Saudi Arabia,” he says. “It’s not the easiest country to get into.”
Instead, Kennedy scanned a 1240-square-kilometre area in Saudi Arabia on Google Earth. He found 1977 possible…
