Help discover ancient ruins -- before it's too late | Sarah Parcak

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As an archaeologist,
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I'm most often asked what my favorite discovery is.
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The answer's easy:
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my husband, Greg.
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(Laughter)
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We met in Egypt on my first dig.
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It was my first lesson in finding unexpected, wonderful things.
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This began an incredible archaeological partnership.
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Years later, I proposed to him in front of our favorite pair statue
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of the Prince and Princess Rahotep and Nofret,
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in the Cairo Museum,
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dating to 4,600 years ago.
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I thought if I was going to ask Greg to spend the rest of this life with me,
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then I should ask him in front of two people
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who had pledged to be together for eternity.
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These symbols endure because when we look at them,
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we're looking at mirrors.
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They are powerful reminders
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that our common humanity has not changed.
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The thrill of archaeological discovery is as powerful as love,
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because ancient history is the most seductive mistress imaginable.
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Many archaeologists have devoted their lives
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to unraveling the mysteries of the past
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under hot suns
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and Arctic winds
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and in dense rainforests.
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Many seek.
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Some discover.
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All worship at the temple of possibility
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that one discovery might change history.
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On my first day in Egypt, I worked at a site
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in the Northeast Egyptian Delta called Mendes, dating to 4,200 years ago,
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in a cemetery.
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That's a picture of me --
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I'm just in my bliss.
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On the dig, surrounded by emerald green rice paddies,
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I discovered an intact pot.
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Flipping it over,
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I discovered a human thumbprint left by whoever made the vessel.
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For a moment, time stood still.
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I didn't know where I was.
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It was because at that moment I realized,
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when we dig,
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we're digging for people,
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not things.
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Never are we so present as when we are in the midst of the great past.
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I can't tell you how many times I've stood in front of the Pyramids of Giza,
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and they leave me speechless.
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I feel like the luckiest person in the world.
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They're a monument to our human brilliance and everything that is possible.
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Many cannot process their brilliance as human --
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they think aliens built them.
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But this is ridiculous.
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All you need to do is get up close and personal,
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and see the hidden hand of man
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in the chisel marks left by the tools that built them.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was built one stone at a time
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with 2.3 million blocks,
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with incredible bureaucratic efficiency.
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It is not the pyramids that stand the test of time;
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it is human ingenuity.
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That is our shared human brilliance.
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History may be cyclical,
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but we are singular.
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I love what I do,
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because I learn that we haven't changed.
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I get to read about mother-in-law jokes from Mesopotamia
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from 3,500 years ago.
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(Laughter)
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I get to hear about neighbors cursing each other
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from 4,600 years ago in Egypt.
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And my absolute favorite, from 3,300 years ago in Luxor:
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an inscription that describes schoolboys who cut class to go drinking.
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(Laughter)
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Kids these days.
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(Laughter)
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I get to see the most incredible architecture,
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see stunning sculptures --
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I mean, this is basically a selfie in stone --
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and see that we've always rocked serious bling.
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And also, we've been posting on walls
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and obsessing about cats --
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(Laughter)
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for thousands of years.
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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Archaeologists are the cultural memory preservers
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and the spokespeople
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for the billions of people and the thousands of cultures
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that came before us.
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Good science, imagination and a leap of faith
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are the trifecta we use to raise the dead.
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In the last year,
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archaeologists have made incredible discoveries, including:
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new human ancestors from South Africa;
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tools from 3.3 million years ago --
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these are the oldest tools ever discovered --
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in Kenya.
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And this, from a series of medical implements found
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from Blackbeard's ship from 1718.
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What you're looking at is a medical tool used to treat syphilis.
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Ouch!
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(Laughter)
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For each of these,
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there are thousands of other incredibly important discoveries
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made by my colleagues,
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that do not make headlines.
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However, I believe that the most important thing we do as archaeologists
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is acknowledge that past people existed
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and lived lives worth learning about.
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Can you even imagine what the world would be like today
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if we acknowledged all human beings in this way?
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So, on a dig, we have a challenge:
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it often looks like this.
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You can't see anything.
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Where are we going to start digging?
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This is from a site south of Cairo.
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Let's have a look from space.
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Again, you can't really see much.
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What you're looking at is a WorldView-3 satellite image,
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which has a .3 meter resolution.
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That's 10 inches.
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This means that you can zoom in from 400 miles in space
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and see your tablets.
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How do I know about this?
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It's because I'm a space archaeologist.
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Let me repeat that.
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I am a space archaeologist.
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This means --
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(Applause)
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Thank you.
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This means I use satellite images and process them using algorithms,
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and look at subtle differences in the light spectrum
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that indicate buried things under the ground
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that I get to go excavate and survey.
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By the way --
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NASA has a Space Archaeology program,
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so it's a real job.
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(Laughter)
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So, let's have a look again.
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We're back at the site just south of Cairo.
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You can't see anything.
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Keep your eye on the red rectangle.
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When we process the image using algorithms --
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think like a space-based CAT scan --
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this is what you see.
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This rectilinear form is an ancient tomb
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that is previously unknown and unexcavated,
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and you all are the first people to see it in thousands of years.
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(Applause)
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I believe we have barely scratched the surface
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in terms of what's left to discover.
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In the Egyptian Delta alone,
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we've excavated less than one-1000th of one percent
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of the total volume of Egyptian sites.
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When you add to that the thousands of other sites
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my team and I have discovered,
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what we thought we knew pales in comparison
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to what we have left to discover.
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When you look at the incredible work
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that my colleagues are doing all around the world
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and what they're finding,
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I believe that there are millions of undiscovered archaeological sites
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left to find.
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Discovering them will do nothing less
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than unlock the full potential of our existence.
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But we have a challenge.
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Over the last year,
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we've seen horrible headlines
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of incredible destruction going on to archaeological sites,
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and massive looting by people like ISIL.
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ISIL has destroyed temples at Palmyra.
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Who blows up a temple?
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They've destroyed the Tomb of Jonah.
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And we've seen looting at sites so rampant,
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it looks like craters of the moon.
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Knowing ISIL's desire to destroy modern human lives,
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it's a natural extension for them to destroy cultural identity as well.
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Countless invading armies have done the same throughout history.
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We know that ISIL is profiting from the looting of sites,
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but we don't know the scale.
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This means that any object purchased on the market today
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from the Middle East
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could potentially be funding terrorism.
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When a site is looted,
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it's as if a puzzle already missing 90 percent of it pieces
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has had the rest obscured beyond recognition.
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This is ancient identity theft writ large.
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We know that there are two kinds of looting going on:
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looting by criminal elements like ISIL,
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and then more local looting by those that are desperate for money.
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We would all do the same to feed our families;
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I don't blame the local looters.
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I blame the middlemen, the unethical traffickers
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and an international art market
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that exploits often ambiguous or even completely nonexistent laws.
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We know looting is going on on a global scale and it's increasing,
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but presently we don't have any tools to stop it.
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This is beginning to change.
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My team and I have just completed a study looking at looting in Egypt.
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We looked at open-source data
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and mapped the entirety of looting across Egypt
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from 2002 to 2013.
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We found evidence of looting and site destruction at 267 sites,
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and mapped over 200,000 looting pits.
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It's astonishing.
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And putting that data together --
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you can see the looting pits marked here.
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At one site, the looting got bad from 2009, 2011, 2012 --
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hundreds and hundreds of pits.
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Putting all the data together,
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what we found is that, contrary to popular opinion,
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looting did not start to get worse in Egypt in 2011 after the Arab Spring,
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but in 2009, after the global recession.
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Thus, we've shown with big data
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that looting is fundamentally an economic issue.
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If we do nothing to stop the problem,
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all of Egypt's sites will be affected by looting by 2040.
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Thus, we are at a tipping point.
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We are the generation with all the tools and all the technologies
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to stop looting,
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but we're not working fast enough.
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Sometimes an archaeological site can surprise you with its resilience.
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I am just back from the field,
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where I co-led a joint mission with Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities
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at a site called Lisht.
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This site dates to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt between 2,000 and 1,750 BC.
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The Middle Kingdom was Ancient Egypt's Renaissance period.
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After a time of intense internal strife and environmental challenges,
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Egypt rebounded
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with an incredible resurgence of art, architecture and literature.
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It's a favorite period of time to study in Egypt,
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because it teaches us so much about how we can survive and thrive
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after great disasters.
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Now at this site, we had already mapped countless looting pits.
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Lisht is a royal site;
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there would have been thousands of people buried there
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who lived and worked at the court of Pharaoh.
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You can see this before and after; you see dozens of looting pits.
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North Lisht.
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This is in South Lisht, before and after.
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When we first visited the site,
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we could see the tombs of many high-ranking officials
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that had been looted.
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Let me put into perspective for you what was taken.
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Imagine a two meter by two meter area full of coffins, jewelry
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and incredible statuary.
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Multiply that times over a thousand.
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That's what was taken.
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So, when we started work,
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my Egyptian co-director, Mohamed Youssef, approached me and said,
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"We must work at this one particular tomb.
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It's been attacked by looters.
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If we don't do anything, they'll be back."
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Of course I agreed, but I didn't think we'd find anything.
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I thought the looters had stolen everything.
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What we started to find were the most incredible reliefs.
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Look at this painting -- it's just stunning.
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We started finding engraved inscriptions.
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And even the titles of the tomb owner --
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he had titles like, "Overseer of the Army,"
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"Overseer of the Treasury."
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I began to have hope.
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Maybe, just maybe we would find his name.
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For the ancient Egyptians, having their name last for eternity
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was their goal.
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And then one day,
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this appeared.
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This is the name of the tomb owner: Intef.
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You can see it written out here, in hieroglyphs.
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Working together with my Egyptian team,
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we had restored someone's name from 3,900 years ago.
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(Applause)
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Working together with my Egyptian colleagues,
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we celebrated this moment of shared discovery.
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What we were doing together was right and true.
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We found this incredible false door, mostly intact.
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On it we read about Intef and his inscriptions.
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You can actually even see him seated here.
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What I realized is that everything I had assumed about looted sites
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had been proven wrong.
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Every day on site we worked together with 70 Egyptians
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as colleagues and friends.
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In the face of so much hatred and ignorance
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against those in the Middle East,
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every moment on site felt like a protest for peace.
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When you work with those that don't look like you,
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or think like you, or speak like you,
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your shared mission of archaeological discovery
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erases all superficial differences.
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What I learned this season
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is that archaeology isn't about what you find.
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It's about what you can prove possible.
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Sometimes when you travel, you end up finding long-lost family --
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not those with whom you share genes,
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but a shared entry in the book of life.
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This is Omer Farrouk, my brother.
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Omer's a Gufti from a village just North of Luxor, called Guft.
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Guftis are part of a celebrated tradition in Egyptology.
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They help with digging and work crew organization.
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Omer is my COO and CFO.
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I simply couldn't do work without him.
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One day many years ago, when I was a young graduate student
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and Omer was a young Gufti who couldn't speak much English,
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we learned, completely randomly,
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that we were born in the same year,
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the same month
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and the same day, six hours apart.
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Twins.
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(Laughter)
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Separated by an ocean, but forever connected
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for Ancient Egypt is our mother.
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I knew then we'd always work together --
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not in my brain,
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but in the part of your soul that knows not everything can be explained.
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(Arabic) Omer by brother,
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I will always love you.
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(English) Omer my brother, I will always love you.
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So, just before my first dig in Egypt,
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my mentor, the very famous Egyptologist Professor William Kelly Simpson,
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called me into his office.
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He handed me a check for $2,000,
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and said, "This is to cover your expenses.
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Have a glorious adventure this summer.
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Someday you will do this for someone else."
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Thus, my TED Prize wish is partial payback, plus interest --
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(Laughter)
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for a great human being's generosity and kindness.
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So, my wish.
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I wish for us to discover the millions of unknown archaeological sites
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around the world.
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By creating a 21st-century army of global explorers,
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we'll find and protect the world's hidden heritage,
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which contains clues to humankind's collective resilience
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and creativity.
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(Applause)
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
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So how are we going to do this?
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We are going to build with the TED Prize money
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an online, crowdsource, citizen science platform
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to allow anyone in the world to engage with discovering
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archaeological sites.
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There are only a couple hundred of us space archaeologists around the world.
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It is my dream to engage the world
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with helping to find sites and protect them.
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What you'll do is sign in, create a username --
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note that this particular username is already taken.
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(Laughter)
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You'll take a tutorial and you'll start work.
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I want to note at the outset
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that in no way will be sharing GPS data or mapping data for sites.
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We want to treat them like human patient data,
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and not reveal their locations.
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You'll then be dealt a card from a deck -- 20 x 20 meters or 30 x 30 meters,
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and you'll be looking for features.
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My team and I will have batch-processed
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large amounts of satellite data using algorithms
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in order for you to find things,
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so you'll be doing really good science.
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You'll then be starting to look.
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What do you see? Do you see a temple?
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Do you see a tomb? Do you see a pyramid?
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Do you see any potential site damage or site looting?
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You'll then begin to mark what's there.
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And off to the side are always going to be rich examples
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of exactly what you're seeing, to help guide you.
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All the data that you help us collect will be shared with vetted authorities,
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and will help create a new global alarm system
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to help protect sites.
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But it's not just going to stop there.
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All the archaeologists with whom we share your discoveries
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will take you with them as they begin to excavate them,
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by using Periscope, Google Plus and social media.
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A hundred years ago, archaeology was for the rich.
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Fifty years ago,
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it was for men.
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Now it's primarily for academics.
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Our goal is to democratize the process of archaeological discovery,
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and allow anyone to participate.
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Ninety-four years ago,
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Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut.
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Who is the next Howard Carter?
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It might be you.
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By creating this platform,
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we will find the millions of places occupied by the billions of people
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that came before us.
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If we want to answer the big questions about who we are
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and where we've come from,
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the answers to those questions do not lie in pyramids or palaces,
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but in the cities and villages of those that came before us.
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If we want to learn about the past,
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it's time we inverted the pyramids.
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Acknowledging that the past is worth saving
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means so much more.
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It means that we're worth saving, too.
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And the greatest story ever told
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is the story of our shared human journey.
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But the only way we're going to be able to write it
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is if we do it together.
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Come with me.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
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