Hosted by award-winning broadcaster Justin Kaufmann, this talk show/audio magazine goes in-depth to help you better understand the city (and world) that you live in. She is a professor of Anthropology and director of the Laboratory for Global Observation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The show originates from Chicago on WGN Radio and features newsmakers, tastemakers and trailblazers. Sarah Helen Parcak is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist, 2 who has used satellite imagery to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt, Rome and elsewhere in the former Roman Empire. Professor, Egyptologist and author Sarah Parcak joins Justin on Extension 720 to discuss her new book, “ Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past.” Sarah talks about what a “space archaeologist” does, the advancement of technology and how it has helped improve her work, what got her interested in archaeology, how much more there is to discover, what she is looking for when she is on an archaeological dig, how crowdsourcing is helping archaeology and why she believes that we are in a golden age of archaeological discovery. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This particular episode highlights the career of Sarah Parcak, a space archaeologist who uses satellite technology to peel away layers of sand. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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