A sample of Poidebard's (Reference Poidebard1934) aerial photographs: A) fort at Qreiye; B) Roman fort and medieval caravanserai at Birke; C) fort at Tell Zenbil; and D) castellum at Tell Brak.

Did Roman Fortifications On Eastern Frontier Function As A Wall Or A Road?

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During a pioneering aerial survey of the Near East in the 1920s, the Jesuit French priest Father Antoine Poidebard undertook one of the world’s first aerial archaeological surveys. A sample of Poidebard’s (Reference Poidebard1934) aerial pH๏τographs: A) fort at Qreiye; B) Roman fort and medieval caravanserai at Birke; C) fort at […]