Art history doesn’t usually have much to offer in the way of practical, directly actionable lessons. But Sarah Parcak, a renowned professor of Egyptology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, ...

As protests inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement continue, people across the country are calling for the removal of statues of known slaveholders and other racist figures. In response to the ...

Archaeologist Sarah Parcak wants to create a crowdsourcing project called Global Xplorer, using $1 million in seed money from TED. (Credit: Ryan Lash / TED) Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak says ...

Archaeologists often spend years digging and hoping they'll find the remnants of ancient civilizations. There's a lot of ground yet to be uncovered. Archaeologist Sarah Parcak says less than 10 ...

Inverse spoke to archaeologist Sarah Parcak the day after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Parcak, like many Americans, was still in the process of sorting through feelings of grief. However, unlike ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Sarah Parcak’s passion for discovery presented itself at an early age. Growing up in Maine, Parcak fondly remembers searching for — and locating — sand dollars on the seashores of her ...

Sarah H. Parcak, Ph.D., Professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Anthropology, has been awarded the 2023 Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction.

In this excerpt from “Archaeology from Space,” Sarah Parcak recounts who inspired her to become a space archaeologist, from her grandfather to Indiana Jones. The following is an excerpt of Archaeology ...

Dr. Sarah Parcak, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, TED Fellow and National Geographic Fellow, was named the 2016 TED Prize winner. Each year TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas ...

Dr. Sarah Parcak, a space archaeologist, today officially launches GlobalXplorer: a citizen science and archaeology platform that’s enlisting people around the world to discover sites unknown to ...

For years, archaeologists have waged a desperate global battle against the looting of ancient sites and the ransacking of humanity’s past. They have pressed government leaders to post police guards at ...