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Archaeology from Space
- How the Future Shapes Our Past
- Narrated by: Sarah Parcak
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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One of the 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
One of the 2019 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year
2020 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award
This program is read by the author.
National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the exciting new world of space archaeology, a growing field that is sparking extraordinary discoveries from ancient civilizations across the globe.
In Archaeology from Space, Sarah Parcak shows the evolution, major discoveries, and future potential of the young field of satellite archaeology. From surprise advancements after the declassification of spy photography, to a new map of the mythical Egyptian city of Tanis, she shares her field's biggest discoveries, revealing why space archaeology is not only exciting, but urgently essential to the preservation of the world's ancient treasures.
Parcak has worked in 12 countries and four continents, using multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery to identify thousands of previously unknown settlements, roads, fortresses, palaces, tombs, and even potential pyramids. From there, her stories take us back in time and across borders, into the day-to-day lives of ancient humans whose traits and genes we share. And she shows us that if we heed the lessons of the past, we can shape a vibrant future.
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"Brilliant" is an understatement.
- By Brian on 11-13-15
By: Graham Hancock
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Black Genesis
- The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
- By: Robert Bauval, Thomas Brophy PhD
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Uncovering compelling new evidence, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy present the anthropological, climatological, archaeological, geological, and genetic research supporting a hugely debated theory of the Black African origin of Egyptian civilization. Building upon extensive studies from the past four decades and their own archaeoastronomical and hieroglyphic research, the authors show how the early Black culture known as the Cattle People not only domesticated cattle but were also an advanced civilization.
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Incredible
- By bidderpinkdog on 03-22-19
By: Robert Bauval, and others
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Who Discovered America?
- The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
- By: Gavin Menzies, Ian Hudson
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas - offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America? The iconoclastic historian's magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known "discoveries" of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus.
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Like reading an appendix
- By D. McCracken on 01-23-15
By: Gavin Menzies, and others
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Meet Me in Atlantis
- My Quest to Find the 2,000-Year-Old Sunken City
- By: Mark Adams
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city all around the world, based entirely on the clues Plato left behind.
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A Bryson-esque tour of people, myth, & archaeology
- By A reader on 05-14-15
By: Mark Adams
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The Memory Code
- The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments
- By: Dr. Lynne Kelly
- Narrated by: Louise Siverson
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since identified the powerful memory technique used by our ancestors and indigenous people around the world.
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Interesting topic , uninteresting listen.
- By Daniel Pisegna on 04-28-18
By: Dr. Lynne Kelly
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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
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Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- By Christopher on 01-19-17
By: Charles C. Mann
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Ancestors
- A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in Ancestors, pre-eminent archaeologist, broadcaster and academic Professor Alice Roberts explores what we can learn about the very earliest Britons – from their burial sites. Although we have very little evidence of what life was like in prehistorical times, here their stories are told through the bones and funerary offerings left behind, preserved in the ground for thousands of years.
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Current narrative
- By James on 06-26-21
By: Alice Roberts
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Scotland's Hidden Sacred Past
- By: Freddy Silva
- Narrated by: Freddy Silva
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Around 6000 BC, a revolution took place on Orkney and the Western Isles of Scotland. An outstanding collection of stone circles, standing stones, round towers, and passage mounds appeared seemingly out of nowhere. And yet many such monuments were not indigenous to Britain, but to regions of the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean. Their creators were equally mysterious. Traditions tell of the Papae and Peti, "strangers from afar" who were physically different, dressed in white tunics, and lived aside from the regular population.
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Magical
- By Mori on 12-17-21
By: Freddy Silva
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The First Signs
- Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
- By: Genevieve von Petzinger
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world—the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language.
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Crawling through caves-a memoir
- By GraceAgnes on 01-27-21
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts
- The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
- By: Bryan Sykes
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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WASPs finally get their due in this stimulating history by one of the world's leading geneticists. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is the most illuminating book yet to be written about the genetic history of Britain and Ireland. Through a systematic, ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, Bryan Sykes has traced the true genetic makeup of British Islanders and their descendants.
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Thesaurus taxing mind numbing travelog
- By Twang on 01-07-14
By: Bryan Sykes
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Cahokia
- Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi
- By: Timothy Pauketat
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Professor Timothy R. Pauketat illuminates the riveting discovery of the largest pre-Columbian city on U.S. soil. Once a flourishing metropolis of 20,000 people in 1050, Cahokia had rotted away by 1400. Its earthen mounds near modern-day St. Louis reveal “woodhenges” and evidence of large-scale human sacrifice.
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probably better in hard copy
- By Mary on 06-05-11
By: Timothy Pauketat
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Lost Civilizations
- 10 Societies That Vanished without a Trace
- By: Michael Rank
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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Whether it is Plato's lost city of Atlantis, a technological advanced utopia that sank into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune"; the colony of Roanoke, whose early American settlers were swallowed up in the wild forest lands of the unexplored continent, or the Ancient American Explorers, who managed to arrive to the New World 2,000 years before Columbus, the disappearance of these societies is as cryptic as it is implausible. This book will look at cultures of the 10 greatest lost civilizations in history.
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Another Great Book from Michael Rank
- By MICHAEL H on 07-17-14
By: Michael Rank
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- Abdalmonam
- 08-15-19
heart warming and informative performance
I didn't think I would like such a genre but the title reeled me in. Sara's performance was heartwarming as she spoke from the heart. I really enjoyed the content and the stories she told. I hope can be a part of GX and contribute along with the crowd towards surveying the whole planet 😀
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- Louis M
- 07-29-19
Wonderful and engaging!
I know very little about archeology, but have always wanted to learn more. This book delivers! The narration keeps you engaged just as much as the content does. Archaeology and space what else could you want!!!!
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- Bruce B.
- 11-21-19
A masterpiece in Archaeology texts
A captivating work that spans the history, present works, and future expectations in Archaeology. Full of good humor, the book does well in not only explaining many of the author's finds using new technology, but also the shortcomings and even failures that are part of the job. This doesn't in my mind make her a bad Archaeologist, on the contrary, it humanizes her and shows that the field doesn't always produce "fortune and glory". I look forward to future publications from this author!
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- Tim Perkins
- 10-25-19
Wonderfully insightful
Loved the book, Insightful look into using satellites to make scientific discoveries in archaeology. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in GIS or Archeology.
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- carotr
- 10-12-20
Read All About!! the past is news!
I've always been intrigued with past cultures and dreamed of visiting Egypt, which I've never done! I saw Sarah on Josh Gates' Expedition Unknown in 2020 during COVID sheltering in and was intrigued. Listening to this book you become a part of her experience and her reinventing stories from data collected of past experience. I will never become an archaeologist, but can join the TED mission to find humankind's past history through Global Explorer..Thanks Sarah!!
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- Todd d. Mccloskey
- 01-29-20
Remote sensing meets Indiana Jones
Great story. Parcak tells the story of the span of her career as an archaeologist using technology to find the next great dig site.
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- HoJun Shin
- 08-06-21
Emerging new field of archaeology
It brings insight to people what Space Archaeology is about. The audio of the author is steady and thoughtful. I have enjoyed great time. Thanks.
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- Regina
- 06-18-23
Fascinating
I came across a podcast featuring the author and immediately searched for the book. This provided a combination of two of my favorite subjects.
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- Michael G Bell
- 05-15-21
So excited
I was surprised to discover that this was shorter and less informative than I had wished. The subject really fascinates me but in this book there is little to capture my further interest. I hope to hear more from the author in the future, however, as her narrative style and a deeper dive into archaeology would be worth another purchase.
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- Beth
- 08-14-19
Wonderful Read!
Sarah makes it easy to understand and grasp the concepts she describes. Well Done Sarah!
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