Q: What is When on Google Earth?
A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!
Q: How do you play it?
A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.
Q: Who wins?
A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.
Q: What does the winner get?
A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!
As I managed to guess correctly Dorothy King’s WOGE – 11 conundrum (after a period of hunting for Marian sites, I finally realised I was looking in the wrong place) as Utica in Tunisia, I get to host the next one on my site. As my blog server is rather slow, I’ll use my employer’s instead. Good luck. It shouldn’t be too hard!!
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Come on. I thought this contest was supposed to be difficult. For “experts.” Every single Holy Land tourist has been there, plodding off the tour coach to wander around the poorly marked ruins on the highway between Haifa and Tel Aviv.
Comment by Neil Silberman — March 18, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
Caesaria, 1st century BCE and main period of public building construction initiated by Herod in 22 BCE – identified by our ecologist!
Comment by Ger — March 18, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
Caesarea Maritima in Israel
Comment by Neil Silberman — March 18, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
Caesarea Maritima, late 1st c. BCE – 1265 CE
Comment by Dan Diffendale — March 18, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
Hmm, not sure why I didn’t notice the earlier comments!
Comment by Dan Diffendale — March 18, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
Neil got there first, Dan’s got the dates. Who wins?
Comment by Daniel Pett — March 18, 2009 @ 5:38 pm
Neil’s emailed me the dates == he wins.
Comment by Daniel Pett — March 18, 2009 @ 6:03 pm
What about our Ger’s answer? Is it ‘cos I’s Irish (pop culture reference – adapted from Sacha Baron Cohen)
Comment by Declan — March 18, 2009 @ 7:55 pm
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