tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68817403548805399752011-04-21T18:48:57.752-07:00lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13413650999024742510noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881740354880539975.post-8272827920603468662009-04-28T05:51:00.000-07:002009-04-28T16:17:45.780-07:00Q: What is When on Google Earth?<br />A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!<br /><br />Q: How do you play it?<br />A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.<br /><br />Q: Who wins?<br />A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.<br /><br />Q: What does the winner get?<br />A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!<br /><br />I took an interesting tour along the Euphrates, and identified this site:<br /><br /><a href="http://ferhans.blogspot.com/2009/04/when-on-google-earth-25.html">http://ferhans.blogspot.com/2009/04/when-on-google-earth-25.html</a><br /><br />So here's the follow-up, which, you might guess, is a little more recent (I'm sorry, I had to crop the scale as the image credit was too revealing).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YfZtorQ9yDg/Sfb9n66q6iI/AAAAAAAAAC0/3vz4XZ1gNOU/s1600-h/screen-capture-4.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YfZtorQ9yDg/Sfb9n66q6iI/AAAAAAAAAC0/3vz4XZ1gNOU/s400/screen-capture-4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329726071311624738" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I have no sense of how tricky or easy this might prove for people, so I'm going to leave it up without comment for a little while, but I do have a series of clues lined up...<br /><br />Clues:<br /><br />1. It's a little outside my usual archaeological remit (continent).<br /><br />2. But you're right that it's in a river, not on the coast...<br /><br />3. It was actually destroyed by fire, though has a past association with explosives...<br /><br />4. I don't believe that it's been subject to any excavation, though it is apparently in the process of being conserved.<br /><br />5. It's not in Scotland, though there is a Scottish connection.<br /><br />6. The neighbouring bank has a small clue to location too.<br /><br />I'm trying to upload a broader view, but blogger is not currently cooperating. I'll try again later.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6881740354880539975-827282792060346866?l=woge26.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13413650999024742510noreply@blogger.com13