This is a fascinating post, thank you for sharing! What an ingenious way to protect the tomb.
It's remarkable what modern remote sensing technologies are now revealing. They've helped uncover what appear to be ancient pyramid complexes hidden beneath the Amazon rainforest canopy, as well as a giant, mysterious subsurface structure beneath the Khafre Pyramid on the Giza Plateau.
Two of the most powerful technologies are LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). Although they are often used together, they measure different physical properties of the Earth's surface.
LiDAR uses infrared laser pulses to produce incredibly detailed 3D point clouds, generating highly accurate X, Y, and Z coordinates. This allows scientists to create precise models of topography, vegetation, archaeological features, and urban infrastructure. Because LiDAR is typically flown from aircraft or drones, it can map landscapes hidden beneath dense forest canopies with exceptional accuracy. However, it is weather-dependent and cannot penetrate cloud cover.
Combined with SAR, which uses radar waves that can operate day or night and through clouds—these technologies are transforming archaeology and allowing us to discover landscapes and what lay beneath structures that would have remained invisible just a few decades ago. I have shared your channel with my readers. Thank you!
What a generous comment, thank you. LiDAR and SAR really are changing everything. Makes you wonder if Nemrut could one day be read without ever digging in. Grateful you shared the channel with your readers.
The whole world is strewn with ancient civilizations on the land n under the sea . When the earth is scanned you can find them everywhere
But to excavate them would only destabilize the official history of civilization further and prove how most of our knowledge is fake and manipulation has been at work
My home country ❤️ i travelled trough quite a lot of Türkiye on my reptile expeditions and the sheer amount of archeological sites and history is just mind boggling 🤯 there’s been recent theories that ancient Anatolia might be the cradle of civilizations
This is a fascinating post, thank you for sharing! What an ingenious way to protect the tomb.
It's remarkable what modern remote sensing technologies are now revealing. They've helped uncover what appear to be ancient pyramid complexes hidden beneath the Amazon rainforest canopy, as well as a giant, mysterious subsurface structure beneath the Khafre Pyramid on the Giza Plateau.
Two of the most powerful technologies are LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). Although they are often used together, they measure different physical properties of the Earth's surface.
LiDAR uses infrared laser pulses to produce incredibly detailed 3D point clouds, generating highly accurate X, Y, and Z coordinates. This allows scientists to create precise models of topography, vegetation, archaeological features, and urban infrastructure. Because LiDAR is typically flown from aircraft or drones, it can map landscapes hidden beneath dense forest canopies with exceptional accuracy. However, it is weather-dependent and cannot penetrate cloud cover.
Combined with SAR, which uses radar waves that can operate day or night and through clouds—these technologies are transforming archaeology and allowing us to discover landscapes and what lay beneath structures that would have remained invisible just a few decades ago. I have shared your channel with my readers. Thank you!
What a generous comment, thank you. LiDAR and SAR really are changing everything. Makes you wonder if Nemrut could one day be read without ever digging in. Grateful you shared the channel with your readers.
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The whole world is strewn with ancient civilizations on the land n under the sea . When the earth is scanned you can find them everywhere
But to excavate them would only destabilize the official history of civilization further and prove how most of our knowledge is fake and manipulation has been at work
Agreed, the scans are turning up sites almost everywhere. We've barely scratched the surface of what's out there.
My home country ❤️ i travelled trough quite a lot of Türkiye on my reptile expeditions and the sheer amount of archeological sites and history is just mind boggling 🤯 there’s been recent theories that ancient Anatolia might be the cradle of civilizations