Science: Flying Archeologists

From interesting Santa Fe, N. Mex.,* scampered Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week,† with a new nubble in the crown of his fame. Henceforth he must be considered the U. S.'s first flying archeologist, for the week before he initiated in the neighborhood of Santa Fe the first formal attempts of U. S. archeologists to locate digging sites by aerial photographs.

From an airplane or airship many a blurred earthly detail is clear. European archeologists have utilized this fact in England, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Africa. In England flyers have spotted old Roman camps...

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