Dartmouth College: Cold War Spy Satellites Reveal Ancient Roman Forts
October 31, 2023
October 31, 2023
HANOVER, New Hampshire, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release:
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An analysis of declassified imagery identifies 396 forts spanning from Syria to Iraq.
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Two-thousand years ago, forts were constructed by the Roman Empire across the northern Fertile Crescent, spanning from what is now western Syria to northwestern Iraq.
In the 1920s, 116 forts were documented in the region by Antoine Poidebar . . .
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An analysis of declassified imagery identifies 396 forts spanning from Syria to Iraq.
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Two-thousand years ago, forts were constructed by the Roman Empire across the northern Fertile Crescent, spanning from what is now western Syria to northwestern Iraq.
In the 1920s, 116 forts were documented in the region by Antoine Poidebar . . .