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Declassified satellite images from an old CIA spy program in the Cold War have been used to discover 396 undocumented Roman forts and fort-like buildings in Eastern Europe.Together, the spy data reveal an extensive web of ancient sites that run north to south and east to west on the eastern frontier of the ancient Roman Empire.
These forts weren't meant to keep foreigners out, argue the researchers, but were built to connect the east and west, enabling safe movement of troops, supplies, and trade.had the brilliant idea of using airplanes to find the remains of ancient Roman sites in Europe. All along the Empire's eastern frontier, Poidebard's aerial mission revealed hundreds of Roman forts covering over a thousand kilometers of borderland.
This rough horizontal path that researchers at Dartmouth discovered would have enabled caravans to travel safely across the arid Syrian steppe, allowing camels, livestock, and humans a place to stop, rest, drink, eat, and sleep. While some of the forts are small and square, like towers, others found via the old spy satellites look like large, complex fortresses with multiple buildings and walls.Altogether, the findings support the viewpoints of some past scholars, who argued the forts along the north-to-south border are too far apart to represent a wall and were more likely"
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