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of what is where beneath the surface. The teams then build up pictures of walls, hearths and other remains.
"It helps a lot if it has rained, because the electrical pulse can get through more easily," says Branting. "Then
if something is more resistant, it really shows up." This is one of the reasons that the project has a spring
season, when most of the resistivity work is done. Unfortunately, testing resistivity is a lot slower than
magnetometry. "If we did resistivity over the whole site it would take about 100 years," says Branting.
Consequently, the team is concentrating on areas where they want to clarify pictures from the
magnetometry.
G. Remote sensing does not reveal everything about Kerkenes Dag, but it shows the most interesting
sub-surface areas of the site. The archaeologists can then excavate these using traditional techniques. One
surprise came when they dug out one of the gates in the defensive walls. "Our observations in early seasons
led us to assume that we were looking at a stone base from a mudbrick city wall, such as would be found at
most other cities in the Ancient Near East," says Dr Summers. "When we started to excavate we were
staggered to discover that the walls were made entirely from stone and that the gate would have stood at
least ten metres high. After ten years of study, Pteria is gradually giving up its secrets."
Questions 1-8 Complete the summary below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer. Exploring the ancient city of Pteria Archaeologists began working ten years ago. They started by taking photographs of the
site from the
ground and then from a distance in a
