Real world Indy Jones: Parcak speaking at a news conference announcing her 2016 TED Prize to develop a program to use satellites to protect the world's cultural treasures from looters.
SAN FRANCISCO: A technology-wielding archaeologist billed as a modern world "Indiana Jones" won a coveted million-dollar TED prize for her work tracking antiquities and the looting of such wonders.
Sarah Parcak was named winner of a 2016 TED Prize that provides a million dollars to kickstart a big-vision "wish" and opens a door to call on the nonprofit organisation's innovative, influential and ingenious community of "tedsters."
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