Click above to listen to part 2 of Headed For Trouble, featuring Sarah Parcak, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, remote sensing expert, professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and author of Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past, describing how satellite imagery of ancient Egyptian cities has given insight on how the ancient civilization thrived and declined.

Headed for Trouble:
Part 1: Seth Goes to Easter Island
Part 2: Sarah Parcak / Space Archaeology
Part 3: Carl Lipo / No Such Collapse

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