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Google 'finds' ancient villa
20/09/2005 12:20 - (SA)
Italy - An Italian man has been credited with "accidentally" finding the remains of a Roman villa while using his home computer to research local maps, reports said on Tuesday.
Computer buff Luca Mori from the village of Sorbolo, close to Parma, was browsing the Google Earth and Google Maps programs downloaded from the internet when he noticed some unusual rectangular shapes on maps of his local area, La Repubblica said.
Mori contacted archaeologists at the University of Parma who excavated ceramic pieces at the site confirming that it was once the location of a Roman villa.
Google Earth is a service offered by search engine Google that displays satellite photos of sites across the globe.
It is a high-resolution three-dimensional map of the earth and was designed mainly for commercial use. - Sapa-dpa
On the net:
earth.google.com
- SAPA
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