June
09
/ 2020
Historians, architects, and archaeologists have long clashed over the way in which Roman towns and cities developed, largely because evidence of ancient urbanization is restricted to excavations at a handful of extensively investigated sites, such as Pompeii and Ostia. But now a team of researchers from the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge in the U.K. and the Department of Archaeology at Ghent University in Belgium have published a new research paper in the journal Antiquity detailing the results of their ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey to investigate the sacred ancient topography at Interamna Lirenas and Falerii Novi. These methods, the paper concludes, will revolutionize the way we study ancient places. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"74557","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"444","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Archaeologist posing with GPR kit at Falerii Novi (Image
