It could be proof of an 'undocumented military campaign' into Saudi Arabia and southeast Jordan.
"The level of preservation of the camps is really remarkable, particularly as they may have only been used for a matter of days or weeks…They went along a peripheral caravan route linking Bayir and Dûmat al-Jandal. This suggests a strategy to bypass the more used route down the Wadi Sirhan, adding an element of surprise to the attack. It is amazing that we can see this moment in time played out at a landscape scale," Dr. Fradley adds.
The recently found camps go directly into Dûmat al-Jandal, which is currently in Saudi Arabia but was once a town in the eastern part of the Nabataean Kingdom. It implies that Rome had to impose its rule, in contrast to thethat has survived, contending that the change of control occurred peacefully at the end of the last Nabataean king's reign.
The camps were located by the Aerial Archaeology in Jordan project and later photographed by the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project .Remote sensing survey in southern Jordan has identified at least three Roman temporary camps that indicate a probable undocumented military campaign into what is today Saudi Arabia, and which we conjecture is linked to the Roman annexation of the Nabataean kingdom in AD 106.
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