Q: What is When on Google Earth? A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!
Q: How do you play it? A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.
Q: Who wins? A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.
Q: What does the winner get? A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!
 ΠΟΤΕΝΓΟΥΓΕΛΟΓAΙΟΝΙΚΗΣ | ||||
| # | Host: | Victor: | Site: | Period: |
| 1. | Shawn Graham | Chuck Jones | Takht-i Jamshid / Persepolis terrace | Achaemenid period |
| 2. | Chuck Jones | PDD | Church of Saint Simeon at Qalat Siman, Syria | 5th-6th c. AD |
| 2.1. | Chuck Jones | Paul Zimmerman | Qal’at al-Bahrain | 16th c. AD |
| 3. | Paul Zimmerman | Heather Baker | Baraqish (Yathill), Yemen | Minaean |
| 4. | Heather Baker | Jason Ur | Mohenjo Daro | ca. 2600-1900 BC |
| 5. | Jason Ur | Dan Diffendale | Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico | 1st-5th centuries CE |
| 6. | Dan Diffendale | Claire of Geevor Mine | Segontium, Caernarfon, Wales | 77ish to about 390 AD |
| 7. | Claire of Geevor Mine | Ivan Cangemi | Carn Euny | ca. 500 BCE-100 CE |
| 8. | Ivan Cangemi | Southie Sham | Monks Mound (Cahokia), Illinois USA | fl. 1050-1200 |
| 9. | Southie Sham | Dan Diffendale | Gergovia | fl. 1st c. BCE |
| 10. | Dan Diffendale | |||
18 comments:
Hmmm... Frankish castle maybe..?
It's roughly Frankish... but the location was occupied from much, much earlier.
Ah, I see you removed your pre-Frankish comment... I was wondering; that would have put the castle in the early 5th century! did you mean pre-Carolingian?
By much earlier, could it possible be a prehistoric tell somewhere in the Levant...
I thought it might be somewhere like Qal'at Salah ed-Din, a Crusader fortress built on an old Phoenician site ... but am kinda stumped as cannot find it on Google Earth! LOL
Dorothy, if you search under Citadel of Salah Ed-Din you'll find it. But I checked, and unless mine eyes doth decieve me, I don't think that's it...
I am happy to believe that my eyes deceive me, so will trust yours!
I still think it's Crusader, and probably ancient Syria ... but not one of the famous ones like Krak.
I had thought it was Shawbak. It took me a long time to actually find it on google earth and then it didn't match. ARG! I went through all the big ones along the Syrian coast and can't find one that matches there either.
My thoughts were that the double fortifications of that sort were more likely to be near a main caravan road or a mountain pass - rather than a coast ...
You might want to consider other areas the Franks turned up...
Doh! It's Kastro Larissa, ancient Argos ...
Built by the Byzantines ca. 1100s, then became Frankish, then Venetian, the Ottoman. First occupation unknown on this particular site, but Argos has been inhabited since at least the Mycenean period.
We have a winner... Congratulations!
LOL - thank you. Was driving me mad, as knew I had been there ...
Now I just need to work out how to get images off Google Earth ...
I usually just use a screen capture, Shift+PrintScreen on PC, Control-Command-Shift-3 on Mac, which copies your current screen to the clipboard, and then crop it out in Photoshop or what have you.
Well done Dorothy! Nice one Dan; a real doozie!
After spending two days trying to figure this one out, I feel I know more about Crusader forts than I ever had before.
Crusader fortresses are amazing so you did not waste your time learning about them!
I just posted no. 11 here - http://phdiva.blogspot.com/2009/03/when-on-google-earth-no-11.html
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