She enjoys gardening, cooking, traveling, and learning bluegrass guitar. Sarah is an avid fan of “football,” as she played varsity football (aka soccer) for Yale and Cambridge, winning her varsity blue and leading Cambridge to a 4-0 defeat of Oxford in the Varsity Match in 2005 with two goals and two assists.

She has given 150 talks to a range of audiences worldwide.

Her research has been featured in two major international BBC-Discovery Chanel Documentaries, 'Egypt: What Lies Beneath” and 'Rome's Lost Empire.' Sarah has worked with NASA and the US State Department, and has collaborators across the globe. She is also interviewed regularly for national print media ( Science, Nature, National Geographic, CNN, BBC). She is regularly invited to give papers at national and international conferences and symposia. Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak searches for unknown sites buried deep in the Earth’s soil using high-tech images from satellites in spacejust like Cruz and his classmates examine satellite maps. These programs honor the Andrews legacy and are sponsored by members and supporters of the Society. Parcak is an internationally renowned Egyptologist, space archaeologist, and science communicator. EARLY WORK As far back as Sarah can remember, she has been in love with ancient Egypt.

She uses satellite imagery to locate Egyptian sites tombs, temples, entire urban areas that have been lost through the passage of time. Sarah has written the first textbook on the field of satellite archaeology, Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology, and has published numerous peer reviewed scientific papers. Sarah Parcak has been named the recipient of the 2021 Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award. Sarah Parcak, a 2012 Emerging Explorer, is not your average archaeologist. Sarah and her husband, Egyptologist Greg Mumford, work together on the Surveys and Excavation Projects in Egypt, which includes archaeological projects in the Delta, Sinai, and pyramid fields regions of Egypt.

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