Google Earth is just about the best free toy anyone ever handed out! I can spend hours and hours rediscovering places I have visited, or discovering places I have never been to.
Archaeology buffs like me have an absolute field day with Google Earth: ruined cities and ancient structures look absolutely amazing seen from above and many of these places are in areas that are very inaccessible anyway: on mountain tops, in deserts or in war-tornm countries.
Here is a first top 10 of my favourite archaological sites on Google Earth! Starting with Prehistory, of course. Sites with an * behind the name indicate places I have been to.
10: Catal Hoyuk, Turkey
9: Hunebedden, Drenthe, Netherlands *
8: Barnenez tomb, Bretagne, France *
7: Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, UK
6: Barumini, Sardinia, Italy
5: Callanish, Harris, UK
4: New Grange, Ireland
3: Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK *
2: Carnac, Bretagne, France *
1: Avebury, Wilthsire, UK *
