Military camps have a distinctive playing card shape.
Three Roman-era military camps dating back some 2,000 years have been discovered in the desert of Saudi Arabia. sky News, The camps were discovered by researchers from the University of Oxford, who located the camps using Google Earth. A peer-reviewed study detailing the discovery is published in the journal ancient time, Researchers say the find suggests evidence of a Roman expedition to Saudi Arabia in southeast Jordan during the 2nd century sky News Report. Researchers claim that these camps were built during the Roman takeover of the Nabataean Kingdom of Jordan in 106 AD.
“We are almost certain they were built by the Roman military, given the distinctive playing card shape of the enclosures with opposite entrances along each side,” said Dr Michael Fradley, a member of the team that identified the camps. by outlet,
He states that these camps were established as guarded barracks when the Romans began their Arab conquest.
Mike Bishop of Oxford, an expert on the Roman army, told National: “These camps are a spectacular new discovery and an important new insight into the Roman campaign in Arabia.”
The expert said, “Roman forts and fortresses show how Rome organized a province, but temporary camps show how they achieved this.”
Dr Fradley said the way these camps have been preserved is “remarkable”, noting that these structures were temporary and used “for a few days or weeks”.
National stated that these camps were located at a distance of 37–44 kilometers from each other, which suggests that it was too far for the infantry to cross in a day.
Researcher study says that the camps were built by Roman cavalry, who would likely have been able to travel the barren terrain in a single day on camels.