What if Hiram Bingham had the technology to find hundreds of other archaeological sites at the same time and create entire 3-D maps of the ancient landscape accurate to within a few inches?

We emphasise the features on satellite maps by adding colours to farmland, urban structures, archaeological sites, vegetation and water.

I am one of many people documenting damage and looting at ancient sites from space - it is such a crucial tool.

What satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the world... It's the most exciting time in history to be an archaeologist.

I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.

If you find a series of linear shapes in the same alignment as known archaeological features, and they match excavated examples, you still need to excavate to confirm, but you can be fairly sure that the imagery is accurate.