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Cold war spy satellites and AI detect ancient underground aqueducts
Archaeologists are using AI and US spy satellite imagery from the cold war to find ancient underground aqueducts that helped humans survive in the desert
Most of the ancient underground aqueducts that enabled humans to settle in the world’s hottest and driest regions have been lost over time. Now, archaeologists are rediscovering them by using artificial intelligence to analyse spy satellite images taken during the cold war. The oldest known underground aqueducts that are found across much of North Africa and the Middle East are called qanats and are up to 3000 years old.
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