Using declassified photos from Cold War-era spy satellites, researchers have identified hundreds of previously undiscovered ancient Roman forts in Iraq and Syria. Their findings, published last ...

Declassified photos captured by United States spy satellites launched during the Cold War have revealed an archaeological treasure trove: hundreds of previously unknown Roman-era forts ...

Archaeologists have uncovered nearly 400 previously unknown Roman forts built about 1,900 years ago and buried across modern-day Iraq and Syria by re-examining Cold war-era satellite images.

Declassified photographs taken by early spy satellites in the 1960s and 1970s reveal the Roman ... Cold War era by Jesse Casana of the University of Cambridge, 396 previously unknown forts and ...

The images challenge ideas about the Empire’s eastern frontier, based off earlier data collected from a biplane. Qasr Bshir is an exceptionally well preserved Roman fort, or castellum, in the ...

Intensive fort construction ... Most historians say the Roman Empire began around 27 BCE. The older Republic had been in the throes of a lengthy civil war after a group of senators assassinated ...

Spy satellite photos reveal hundreds of long-lost Roman forts, challenging decades-old theory (CNN) — Declassified photos captured by United States spy satellites launched during the Cold War ...