While many people use their drones to shoot dynamic videos, I prefer taking still photography. To me the DJI Phantom is the ideal platform to do aerial photography in general and archaeological pictures in particular: Historic ruins are often not very impressive seen from the ground, where all we are left with is a foot high series of stone walls. Elevate your camera platform into the sky and shoot the same structure from above and you will actually get an idea of the building, its shape, and its site. Such steady aerial shots can serve as blueprints for re-creating the building in a 3D program, like SketchUp. Once done, the virtual building can be combined with the aerial or ground shot to give us a sense of what the building looked like. The picture from the ground at the Roman fort in Irgenhausen, Switzerland, does not do the building justice; when the camera is up in the air, however, we get a much better impression of the structure once we get a bird’s-eye perspective of it. For more of the story, click on the image below: 
Aerial Archaeology
