Real-world 'Indiana Jones' wins coveted TED prize

San Francisco

A TECHNOLOGY-WIELDING archaeologist billed as a modern world "Indiana Jones" won a coveted million-dollar TED prize on Monday for her work tracking antiquities and the looting of such wonders.

Sarah Parcak, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was named winner of a 2016 TED Prize that provides a million dollars to kick-start a big-vision "wish" and opens a door to call on the non-profit organisation's innovative, influential and ingenious community of "tedsters". Prof Parcak is to reveal her wish at an annual TED Conference in Vancouver in February.