The remarkable clarity with which archaeological sites and features are visible on CORONA imagery, combined with the extent to which many of these features have been destroyed or obscured, has made the images an indispensable resource in Near Eastern archaeology. Since CORONA images first became available to the public in the late 1990s, they have been used to discover hundreds of previously unrecorded sites, to transform our understanding of previously known sites, and to recognise and map complex archaeological landscape features including ancient roadways, field systems and canals. Below we highlight a few examples of the many ways in which CORONA has benefited archaeological research in the Near East.
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