Technology & History: The real thing


Here's an interesting story about how technology is
being used to locate famous historical places and
objects:

: With as many as 1,500 active satellites orbiting
: the Earth and the human population approaching
: seven billion, you'd think that everything of value
: on the planet would have been discovered by now.
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: But some of the world's most famous historical
: objects, from the Holy Grail of medieval lore to
: the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane, remain
: unaccounted for. Somewhere off the coast of
: Colombia lies the San José, a sunken Spanish
: galleon thought by some to be carrying more
: than $1 billion in treasure. Archaeologists have
: spent decades searching for the tomb of the
: Egyptian queen Nefertiti. And since the middle
: of the 16th century, nobody has seen a mural by
: Leonardo da Vinci that many of his
: contemporaries considered his greatest
: masterpiece.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119457193970087421.html?mod=hpp_us_leisure
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