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How Ground Penetrating Radar is Used in Archaeology

  Ground penetrating radar was originally invented in the 1920s with the aim of discovering hidden objects underground, although it didn’t take off until the 1970s when the US Military began investigating the use of ground penetrating radar to find mines, buried weapons caches, tunnels, and other strategically important underground structures. However, the demand for […]

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Stonehenge Research Leaps Forward with GPR

The strange stone structures at Stonehenge have long baffled archaeologists and historians alike, but a major breakthrough may just explain what ancient civilizations from 3100 BC were doing with those massive rocks. Using ground-penetrating radar and other advanced survey equipment, researchers unearthed 17 new chapels and hundreds more archaeologically significant structures on the plains in

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