‘Spectacular’ new find: Roman military camps in desert found by Oxford archaeologists using Google Earth
‘Spectacular’ new find: Roman military camps in desert found by Oxford archaeologists using Google Earth
27 April 2023
Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by members of the EAMENA project team. Their paper, published today [Thursday 27 April 2023] in the journal Antiquity, reports the discovery may be evidence of a probable undocumented military campaign across south east Jordan into Saudi Arabia.