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Technology and Archaeology
00:00 - 02:18
Modern innovations lead to new archaeological discoveries as seen in this clip which demonstrates how experts can detect a gladiator school hidden beneath the ground.
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Video Transcript
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Vienna's Ludwig boltzmann Institute the scientists have developed electronic scanners
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that can serve a Acres at a time
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without the need for slow and expensive dicks
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find something interesting
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and they can zero right in
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the scams gathered data that build to a three-dimensional map of the landscape beneath the surface
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first magnetometers measure variations in the Earth's magnetic field
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perhaps we're rocks or Earth have been moved
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every scan is recorded and stored as raw data
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with a precise GPS location
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next
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ground-penetrating radar looks deeper
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to create a three-dimensional image of walls and Foundations still in place
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this
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is mapping
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the past
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Guided by GPS
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the scans are merged with the new aerial photos
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to show every detail of the freshly discovered complex
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the combination of images
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reveals one final
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vital element
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can we compare this to the magnetic results
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yeah
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look here
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you can see much more detailed the building gets much more complete so you have all the
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outer
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walls very detailed now
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so it's much more information
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and but the most important of course
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is
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the circular structure
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in that
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courtyard
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a circular structure that only showed up when radar magnetometer scans and photographs were merged
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noise our recognized at once what he had discovered
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another Arena and conundrum
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a training arena in the center
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of a gladiator School
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the first complete Gladiator school ever found outside Rome
