https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/science/al-qadisiyyah-site-satellite-images-scli-intl/index.html
This is where the Arabs defeated the Sassanids, the last of the great Persian empires. (Let's be honest with ourselves. The Safavids were no more than a regional power.)
I've seen some of these photos and they really are very useful. An enormous amount of stuff has been paved over or plowed over since they were taken. Some go back as far as the 1960s. You'd be surprised how good the cameras already were back then. IIRC you can get them for free off the USGS website.
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Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
-- Machiavelli
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/science/al-qadisiyyah-site-satellite-images-scli-intl/index.html:
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