dr. parkak took some other things we are doing and created something we could have never thought about.d never be looking for space archaeology, we are focusing on current planet changing. focusing on what happened 4,000 years ago, it's a pleasant surprise. >> what is not a pleasant surprise is present day looting. detected from space. >> following the arab spring, many of the guards at egypt and syria simply went away. so a number of individuals have gone after archaeological sites. we have found these situations to be cultural racket racketeering. to help fund international are like blood diamonds. >> working on geological and archaeological remote sensing images in egypt. >> this was taken in 2010 before the start of the revolution, on the right. on the left it was taken at the end of 2012 beginning of 2013 and you can see all these hundreds of little black holes, those are looting pits. >> they told me in egypt, since the revolution we found this kind of looting has increased, a very huge system. >> it was so bad, some people didn't know about what they were doing. they just blowing