![]() ![]() She's found fingerprints of the Viking world and the former Roman Empire. Her discoveries include 17 pyramids, 3,100 potential settlements, and 1,000 tombs in Egypt. Parcak is the world's foremost space archaeologist, known as a "modern-day Indiana Jones." She uses satellites to find ancient cities, tombs, and archaeological sites. We are breaking, as a society, but also we've been broken for 400 years. “What we find in archaeology is broken, and we have to make it whole again. “I tend to think cyclically, because of archaeology, about the nature of these things – about how empires rise and fall,” she tells Inverse. She can see current predicaments from a bird's-eye view. However, unlike many, Parcak studies the ruins of past civilizations. Parcak, like many Americans, was still in the process of sorting through feelings of grief. ![]() Inverse spoke to archaeologist Sarah Parcak the day after rioters stormed the U.S. ![]()
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