Dmitriy Dey was looking for pyramids when Google Earth led him to enormous geometric earthworks that were spread across the Turgai steppe in northern Kazakhstan. Dey is a Kazakh economist and archaeology enthusiast, who spotted structures that formed squares, crosses, rings and other shapes across the landscape in 2007. The largest were hundreds of meters wide and difficult to recognize from the ground, and the discovery eventually drew archaeologists, satellite researchers and NASA's attention to a group of earthworks that had gone unnoticed. Dey's own Turgay Discovery project says that he found the first geoglyphs while studying satellite images of the region in 2007.
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