Dr. Sarah Parcak, an Archaeology professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has searched the globe for historic sites such as Egyptian cities, Viking ruins and helped uncover them through the use of high-resolution satellite imagery.
Sarah, known as the “space archaeologist” for using the satellite to discover and map of unknown historic sites, detailed in her new book entitled “Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past" her adventures and how satellite revolutionized her field.
She chatted with Joshua Sokol at the New York Times about how the rise and fall of ancient civilizations might illuminate through our own struggles.
The professor stated that Egypt’s Old Kingdom fell due to political instability, economic insecurity, social instability, and climate change.
The Kingdom dated back 4,200 years ago and relied on the flooding of the Nile every year and after consistent years of poor floods caused a drought, she added.
King, Pepi II, who ruled for about 90 years, caused a poor economy, thus political instability, economic insecurity, in addition to the drought, which led to social instability.
Things started to get better after a generation if not two.
She addressed how they managed to rebound, during the Middle Kingdom, and offered tips on how to make economic opportunity more equitable.
The Kingdom has taught that we need to learn how to make economic opportunity more equitable if we got a chance of getting through it.
Economic differences are noticeable in the archaeological record, such as the massive power and wealth was at the power of the king and his court, while the lower class did not have such opportunities.
However, the money toward the end of the Old Kingdom flowed to the provinces and providing the people with more opportunities, which results were really seen at the developed styles of the more regional art in Egypt.
The learned lesson was that more economic opportunities in more regional areas lead to remarkable development.
Parcak's book is due to be released on Tuesday.
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