Archaeologists are utilizing AI and United States spy satellite images from the cold war to discover ancient underground aqueducts that assisted people make it through in the desert
By Jeremy Hsu
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Holes at the top of this image are vertical shafts to underground aqueducts called qanats
Nazarij Buławka et al
The majority of the ancient underground aqueducts that allowed human beings to settle on the planet's most popular and driest areas have actually been lost gradually. Now, archaeologists are finding them by utilizing expert system to evaluate spy satellite images taken throughout the cold war.
The earliest recognized underground aqueducts that are discovered throughout much of North Africa and the Middle East are called qanats and depend on 3000 years of ages. They were created to bring water from highland or mountain …
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