The Ancient Tunnel Trap That May Have Killed Roman Soldiers | Dura-Europos

⬇️ What happened when Roman soldiers dug a tunnel beneath their own city walls and reached an enemy mining gallery?

Around 256 CE, the Sasanian Persian army besieged the Roman frontier city of Dura-Europos in Syria. Both sides used underground mining operations near the city's western defenses.

Excavations revealed the remains of at least 19 Roman soldiers and one Sasanian soldier entombed in a tunnel near Tower 19. Archaeologist Simon James later argued that choking smoke may have killed the Romans during the underground confrontation.

The theory is dramatic, but it must be treated carefully: it is a scholarly interpretation of archaeological evidence, not a conclusively proven account of every death in the tunnel.

This cinematic 3D CGI reconstruction explores the siege engineering, the underground encounter and the evidence behind one of antiquity's most unsettling military mysteries.

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