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Declassified satellite photographs and archaeology in the Middle East: case studies from Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Kennedy
David Kennedy*
Affiliation:
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth WA 6907, Australia. [email protected]
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Abstract

Recent availability of declassified satellite images of landscapes and ancient cities in Turkey offer new and valuable material for archaeolgical research. Here David Kennedy explains the significance and use of some images in the Euphrates Valley.

Keywords

Aerial photographysatellite imagesMiddle EastTurkey
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 277 , September 1998 , pp. 553 - 561
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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