Roman military camps found in desert by archaeologists using Google Earth

 

Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford's School of Archaeology.

Their paper, published in the journal Antiquity, reports the discovery may be evidence of a probable undocumented military campaign across southeast Jordan into Saudi Arabia.

The camps were identified using satellite images. According to the research team, they may have been part of a previously undiscovered Roman military campaign linked to the Roman takeover of the Nabataean Kingdom in AD 106 CE, a civilization centered on the world-famous city of Petra, located in Jordan. 

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