Roman ghost city buried in sands for 1000 yrs

[Still Waters]

Roman Ghost City: We tend to think of caring for those who serve their country as something of a modern invention, an evolution in social programs that dates back only, perhaps, three or four centuries.

Veterans’ hospitals and veterans’ retirement communities are, many believe, something our modern democracies can take credit for inventing, that our belief evolved that, if one serves his country, that country owes him care in his senior years.

In truth, however, that principle dates back many, many centuries.

In about 100 A.D., the Emperor Marcus Trajan decided to found a city for soldiers, those who had fought for the 3rd Augustan Legion and were ready to retire to a life more relaxed than those of military campaigns and battles.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/10/13/roman-ghost-city/

[quiXilver]

How many sites, cities and megaliths lie under the sands of the world, I often find myself wondering...