Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images
- On the walls of a chamber near the top of the central tower in the ancient Cambodian temple Angkor Wat, paintings depict horseback riders and a traditional musical ensemble.
- Every day, thousands of visitors pass these images without noticing, because they’re faded to the point of invisibility.
- They were discovered, along with about 200 other paintings throughout the sprawling complex, between 2010 and 2012 by a Singaporean archaeologist using a method conceived at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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- On the walls of a chamber near the top of the central tower in the ancient Cambodian temple Angkor Wat, paintings depict horseback riders and a traditional musical ensemble.
- Every day, thousands of visitors pass these images without noticing, because they’re faded to the point of invisibility.
- They were discovered, along with about 200 other paintings throughout the sprawling complex, between 2010 and 2012 by a Singaporean archaeologist using a method conceived at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Sources: Nasa