Jesse Casana, David D. Goodman & Carolin Ferwerda. A wall or a road? A remote sensing-based investigation of fortifications on Rome’s eastern frontier.
In the 1920s, at the beginning of the ‘age of aviation’, the Jesuit French priest Father Antoine Poidebard undertook one of the world’s first aerial archaeological surveys, using a biplane and a camera to document hundreds of ancient forts and other sites throughout what today is Syria, Iraq and Jordan (Poidebard 1934). Having piloted a […]