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Discovering a Holocaust Era Escape Tunnel : GPR Investigation at Ponar, Lithuania
(2018-02-05)
Over 100,000 individuals were killed in Ponar Forest, Lithuania from 1941-1944. Eighty Jewish prisoners forced to burn the bodies of the victims were held in the forest for roughly a year. In an attempt to escape, they dug ...
Ground Penetrating Radar as a Method for Archaeological Investigation : Rhodes, Greece
(2018-02-06)
Rhodes, Greece is widely known for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World. A portion of the island, The Medieval Old Town of
the City of Rhodes, was declared a World Heritage Site due to ...
Nazi Mass Execution Trenches at Fort IX, Kaunas Lithuania
(2018-04)
Shortly after the Nazi occupation of Lithuania in June of 1941, they began to round up the country’s Jewish population as
part of the Nazi’s “Final Solution”. At Fort IX as many as 45,000 Jews and Communists were killed ...
Applying Interpolation Methods for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Topographic Correction at a Lithuanian Holocaust Mass Burial Site
(2019-05)
A ground penetrating radar (GPR) grid was collected to locate a Holocaust mass burial site in the Trakas-Pempiškis woods of Rokiškis, Lithuania. The survey, shot with a pulseEKKO Pro GPR system and 500 MHz antennae, consisted ...
Exploring the Subsurface of an Ancient Harbor at Tel Akko, Israel : Using 3D Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging and Software
(2019-05)
From the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period, Tel Akko, Israel was a thriving port city located on the northern portion of the Haifa Bay. Due to stable sea levels, longshore coastal drift, and associated aeolian ...
Subsurface Imaging at Magdala, Israel : Better Understanding a Former Fishing Village along the Sea of Galilee
(2019-05)
From the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period, Tel Akko, Israel was a thriving port city located on the northern portion of the Haifa Bay. Due to stable sea levels, longshore coastal drift, and associated aeolian ...
Ground Penetrating Radar Investigation of a Mass Grave and Malina Entrance at the HKP Site, Vilnius, Lithuania
(2018-04)
Major Karl Plague was a German officer during World War Two responsible for
saving 250 Jewish forced labor workers at HKP 562 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The 750
other workers were captured and killed by Nazi SS members on ...
Investigating the Algodones Dune Field of Southern California II : Using Geospatial Techniques
(2019-05)
The Eastern Algodones Dunes, located in the Sonoran Desert, Imperial county, Southern California, stretch 72 kilometers and are 9.7 kilometers in width. The dunes were hypothesized to be a result of sediment blown from ...
Ground Penetrating Radar Examinations of a Ritual Bathhouse in Ponedel, Lithuania
(2019-05)
Based on eyewitness and historical reports, the decimated remains of an old Jewish bathhouse and mikveh, or ritual bath, are believed to be buried in the backyard of a home in Ponedel, Lithuania. Using ground penetrating ...
Locating the Former Synagogue of Seduva, Lithuania
(2019-05)
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) was collected over a pavement parking lot in Šeduva, Lithuania, to search for a synagogue that was destroyed during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. The GPR data was collected with a Sensors ...