Can this technique help find your car keys?

how cool, just send it to a friend in Cairo, wounder who found out first :P

http://i.imgur.com/ItL9c.jpg

The infrared image on the right reveals the ancient city streets of Tanis near modern-day San El Hagar.

I wonder where all of the people went to in order for these locations to be swallowed up by time or sand or both?

The ones in Greece and Italy I understand under volcanic ash and water for Atlantis, but what about the houses in the cliffs of New Mexico.

The people just vanished ... I wonder why?

Whole cites and even pyramids covered up ... sounds like a movie in there somewhere.

:up:

usually the reason something becomes a "ghost town" and the people "vanish" is because a nearby water source has trickled to a dry creek bed.

food sources, such as grazing large animals migrate.

several years of drought will cause people to leave their homes in ancient times.

repeated attacks by warring tribes.

any number of things.

if you think of the number of things people need in order to live. Food... water, shelter etc. and then consider how many of those things might abruptly vanish - this usually explains why people vanish as well.

the reason for the number of ghost towns in the American West can be attributed to rail road construction.

many old west towns entire economies depended on the railway industry to bring in goods, water and other commodities as well as carrying those things out.

re-route the rail road around some small wild west town in central arizona and you get a run down ghost town 150 years old.

on the other hand, another little rail road town in arizona might grow up to be Phoenix or Tuscon.

same concept.

Could be, :yep: