Tag Archive for 'Fortress'

Aerial photo of the Dmanisis Gora site, showing the location at the convergence of two gorges; the 2023 excavations of the inner fortress are visible in foreground. Image credit: Nathaniel Erb-Satullo.

UAV-Based Mapping Unlocks Secrets of Ancient Mega-Fortress in Southern Georgia

Jan 8, 2025 by News Staff

High-resolution UAV-based aerial survey of Dmanisis Gora, a Bronze-Age mega-fortress in Georgia, the South Caucasus, has revealed the extent of the large...

3D virtual reconstruction of the Bronze Age town of al-Natah. Image credit: Charloux et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309963 / AFALULA-RCU-CNRS.

Bronze Age Town of Al-Natah Represents ‘Slow Urbanism,’ Archaeologists Say

Oct 30, 2024 by News Staff

Northwestern Arabia — the region between Mecca and Aqaba — during the Bronze Age was dotted with interconnected monumental walled oases centered...

A sample of the newly-documented complex ancient Roman forts. Image credit: CORONA imagery / U.S. Geological Survey.

Archaeologists Discover Large Number of Ancient Roman Forts in Fertile Crescent

Oct 30, 2023 by News Staff

During a pioneering aerial survey of the Near East in the 1920s, the Jesuit French priest Father Antoine Poidebard recorded 116 fortified military buildings...

Mount Piramagrun, showing the location of the main Rabana and Merquly settlements. Image credit: Michael Brown / Rabana-Merquly Archaeological Project.

Archaeologists Find Parthian-Era Fortress in Iraqi Kurdistan

Jul 20, 2022 by News Staff

The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly was one of the major regional centers of the Parthian Empire, according to new research led by Heidelberg University. Mount...

The 2,100-year-old Hellenistic fortress in Israel. Image credit: Emil Aljem, Israel Antiquities Authority.

Israeli Archaeologists Unearth 2,100-Year-Old Fortress

Nov 22, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed a Hellenistic fortified structure as well as weapons, burnt wooden beams and...

An aerial photo of the Canaanite fortress near Gal On in central Israel. Image credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority.

Archaeologists Unearth Canaanite Fortress in Central Israel

Aug 25, 2020 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered the ruins of a 3,200-year-old Canaanite fortress near Gal On, a kibbutz in central...