Posted on 08/22/2022 9:46:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
U2 surveillance aircraft criss-crossed the globe photographing everything from 70,000 feet. The pictures, now on display at the Penn Museum, reveal a wealth of archaeological information...
Images taken from on high to observe what may be buried underground have been used by archaeologists for more than a century, and researchers at the Penn Museum have embraced the technology since at least the 1920s.
But no one has ever utilized the most famous trove of aerial images from the Cold War, those produced by high-flying U-2 spy planes, first deployed by the CIA to photograph all over the world beginning in 1956, a point documented in a small exhibit at the museum, "U-2 Spy Planes & Aerial Archaeology," on view until the fall of 2023...
"Hundreds of U-2 missions took place all over the world, but we were only working with the Middle Eastern missions because that's the part of the world where we work and that we know well," said Hammer in a telephone interview. "You need to know the geography well in order to be able to figure out from these photographs where the plane flew. And not all of the Middle Eastern missions were declassified because the U.S. government doesn't declassify images of Israel."
... Nowadays, archaeologists have access to multiple sources of post-U-2 aerial imagery — from drones to satellites and images from Google Earth.
But the U-2 spy images from the 1950s are unique in almost every way. Their resolution is very high, and, thanks to the Cold War hunger for surveillance, American spy planes flew everywhere in search of military installations and photographed everything, providing images of ancient archaeological features in the process.
(Excerpt) Read more at inquirer.com ...
A skein of 'desert kites' constructed thousands of years ago in southern Jordan as captured by a 20th-century spy plane. The structures, built from thin walls of stone, were used by hunters to trap herds of animals.Courtesy Emily Hammer and Penn Museum
Did he? Did he really??? /s
Look out, Google Earth. Here I come.
The U-2, another Kelly Johnson masterpiece.
If we’d given him the money instead of NASA, he probably could have had men on the moon by 1964.
Wonder if the ark is still on Mount Ararat.
Perhaps they have photos of it.
It’s probably encased in snow and ice. Maybe one day it will be discovered.
Globull warming will reveal it.
The ark may be in Iran, fits the Bible description better, where the ancient Armenians migrated from.
“...not all of the Middle Eastern missions were declassified because the U.S. government doesn’t declassify images of Israel.”
Images showing Biblical era ruins are still classified?
Makes you go hmmmmm...
Kelly would have put permanent colonies on Mars.
No, it doesn't. Military structures are probably everywhere, and small, given that most of the armed forces are on call, with everyone of age and eligible to serve trains up continually.
Their not-too-neighborly neighbors don't need any help from the US to find out stuff, but our info will be by far the best stuff available.
Israel's only about 8000 sq mi, 200 mi long by (at widest) 70 mi wide. The population estimate is 9.5 million (a growth of 2 million in the past 15 years, it sez here), almost 1200 people per square mile.
The US had Von Braun, he was definitely the right guy for the moon missions.
They can’t ‘google erf’ redact out modern structures?
Interesting.
There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed,
or hidden that will not be made known.
Luke 12:2
Most visible structures are modern (year 1900 and newer) and sites of former structures are either medieval/early modern, or buried under layer after layer of subsequent occupation. This is mostly true in urban areas throughout the world, but Israel has much less ground with which to work. The Negev went from desert to farmland during the 20th century due to the continuous stewardship of pre-independence Israelis, but the amount of historic structures there is probably small, or very prehistoric.
Fair enough.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.-- Genesis 8:4 KJV
The Bible says "mountains" of Ararat, plural, not "mountain," singular. It isn't a mountain.
This subject has been of interest earlier than that.
Here is an excerpt of a “graphic novel”, written in 1976, which references Soviet WWII aerial photography capturing pictures what the Soviet government itself apparently believed to be the Ark. (footnotes and references supplied)
https://www.chick.com/products/excerpts/comics/107-excerpt.html
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