A lost campaign? New evidence of Roman temporary camps in northern Arabia

2023/04/27 by Michael Fradley, Andrew Wilson, Bill Finlayson +1 · 2 voices · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

paper · pdf · doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.50

Abstract

Remote sensing survey in southern Jordan has identified at least three Roman temporary camps that indicate a probable undocumented military campaign into what is today Saudi Arabia, and which we conjecture is linked to the Roman annexation of the Nabataean kingdom in AD 106.

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• Not quite a #RomanFortThursday. Ground photographs from a recent survey of three temporary Roman army camps ESE of Bayir #Jordan @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social See the original report paper: doi.org/10 [bsky, 8 points, 0 comments]
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