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59) Sarah Parcak

She makes satellite technology look cool

Born: 1979, Bangor, Maine, United States of America

Archaeologist, Egyptologist and Professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham’s Department of Anthropology.

Sarah holds her PhD in Egyptian Archaeology from Cambridge University. She is a National Geographic Society Research Fellow. Sarah and her husband worked together on the Surveys and Excavation Projects in Egypt. Sarah wrote the first textbook on satellite archaeology and that skill is what she is typically shown doing in Documentaries on various subjects.

Sources:

https://www.uab.edu/cas/anthropology/people/faculty-directory/122-sara-h-parcak

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/space-archaeologist-sarah-parcak-winner-smithsonians-history-ingenuity-award-180961120/