Massive archaeological trove found via Google Earth

An Australian archaeologist claims to have identified nearly 2,000 potentially important sites in Saudi Arabia using Google Earth.

David Kennedy,a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia,says with the help of satellite images from Google Earth he has pinpointed 1,977 archaeological sites,including 1,082 teardrop shaped stone tombs in the Arab country.

Ive never been to Saudi Arabia. Its not the easiest country to break into, New Scientist magazine quoted Kennedy as saying.

Instead,he scanned 1240 square kilometres in Saudi Arabia using Google Earth. From their birds-eye view he found 1,977 potential archaeological sites,including 1,082 pendants ancient tear-drop shaped tombs made of stone.