Declassified Corona spy satellite images showing Roman forts at three sites in the eastern Mediterranean: (a) Sura, a Roman fortress city nearby the Parthian territories (now in modern-day Iraq ...

Declassified photos taken by Cold War-era spy satellites have revealed hundreds of previously unknown Roman-era forts, in what is now Iraq and Syria, a new study found.

Other local forts, however, were deemed unlikely targets, and were never remilitarized. When the two nations went to war in 1898, the action played out entirely offshore and ended in a decisive ...