It can probably be located from space with infra-red. Can you put in a 
request with NASA?

-Joel.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mIEKAL aND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: Archaeological treasures a click away on Google Earth


There's rumored to be a 10th century step pyramid built by the
Mississippi mound culture about 25 miles from here which I've never
been able to locate.  This could be the ticket if I knew what I was
looking for..  somewhere around here:

http://maps.google.com/?
ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=43.469491,-90.705872&spn=0.048462,0.080166&t=h&om=


On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Brent Bechtel wrote:

> For entertainment, I sometimes surf conspiracy / amateur-science
> websites. Apart from the usefulness of mapping archaeological finds
> with Google Earth, many persons have presented claims of dubious
> structures, secret installations, overlapping to mounds, and so on.
>
> I wonder how the two approaches might intersect and validate claims
> of amateur researchers ...
>
> -Brent
>
>
>
> mIEKAL aND wrote:
>> Archaeological treasures a click away on Google Earth
>>
>> http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/15763952.htm
>>
>> After 25 years of gritty field work, UNC Chapel Hill archaeologist
>> Scott Madry has dug up a new way to hunt for ancient ruins --
>> without leaving home.
>>
>> Last year, Madry read how an Italian man accidentally discovered
>> the outline of an ancient Roman villa while looking at his house
>> on Google Earth.
>>
>> Madry explores how a Celtic people called the Aedui lived in
>> France for about three centuries starting about 300 B.C.
>>
>> Madry got out his laptop, fired up Google Earth and looked over
>> lands in Burgundy, near his research area. Immediately, he spotted
>> features that, to his trained eye, resembled outlines of Iron Age,
>> Bronze Age, ancient Roman and medieval residences, forts, roads
>> and monuments.
>>
>

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