The New Statesman
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A tomb containing 12 skeletons was found in the ancient city of Petra , Jordan , this autumn .
Geophysicist Richard Bates used electromagnetic conductivity and ground-penetrating radar to survey the structure.
He was asked to begin surveying the site as any future work to try to control flooding will have to avoid damage to buried structures.
Richard Bates was born in Aberystwyth , Wales , to a geologist father and a teacher mother.
He studied geology at Edinburgh , then did a PhD in geophysics in Bangor , Wales .
Bates applied geophology to environmental study: “Stuff with ice and glaciers and climate change, and stuff with biologists on sea mammals, habitat mapping and ocean floors”.
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