Declassified images from the Cold War show 400 Roman forts in Syria and Iraq

Declassified images from the Cold War show 400 Roman forts in Syria and Iraq

Declassified Cold War spy satellite images reveal hundreds of previously unknown Roman Empire fortresses in eastern Syria and northwestern Iraq, in addition to the hundreds already recorded by Jesuit archaeologists Antoine Poidebard in his pioneering aerial reconnaissance of the Middle East in the 1920s. Based on their arrangement, Poidebard suggested that the 116 military buildings […]