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Thursday, March 17, 2011, 7:00–9:00 PM THE END OF EGYPT’S PYRAMID AGE FROM SPACE
Co-sponsored with the Distinctive Voices at the National Academy of Science & Engineering Beckman Center For more information click here.
How Egypt’s Old Kingdom Period ended is a subject of great debate for social, political, economic, and to a far less extent, environmental factors. This lecture will describe how the author’s satellite remote sensing and ground survey research in Egypt’s East Delta has led her to believe that a global climate change phenomenon was one of the primary reasons the great pyramid age of Egypt ended, ushering in a time period of social and political collapse. This work has been featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Why Ancient Egypt Failed.” Sarah H. Parcak is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Founding Director of the Laboratory for Global Health Observation (LGHO), and is noted for being the first Egyptologist to use satellite imaging to identify new archaeological sites in Egypt. Admission:
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