Drone helps Poles explore ancient cities in desert

The Poles are using new technology to explore cities that were built 2,300 years ago.

The project was the idea of Maciej Wacławik, a PhD student at the Jagiellonian University in the southern Polish city of Kraków.

He told public broadcaster Polish Radio that a drone is more effective and precise than traditional methods of research.

The Polish archaeological team is working near Beersheba, the largest city in the southern Israeli Negev desert.

The Negev contains the remains of towns founded in the second century BC. The settlements once provided shelter for caravans traversing the desert and were later conquered by the Romans.

Wacławik said the Polish researchers not only wanted to discover how the towns once looked, but also how people in ancient times coped with extreme conditions, for example how they supplied themselves with enough water to survive in the desert.

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Source: IAR