Declassified images have led to the identification of 396 forts stretching between Syria and Iraq. Two thousand years ago, the Roman Empire erected forts across the northern Fertile Crescent, a swath of land stretching from present-day western Syria to northwestern Iraq. New Insights from Cold War
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Researchers published findings in the journal Antiquity to reveal another 396 sites of ancient forts along the former eastern border of the Roman Empire.