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Qasr Bashir with Notes

Hi all.

This is a playable version of my Qasr Bashir Roman fort. It was built about AD 300 under the emperor Diocletian, as part of the "Limes Arabicus." This was a defensive system of forts along the Roman empire's eastern border, in what is now Jordan & Syria. It's one of the best-preserved Roman forts in the world, and surprisingly very little-excavated!

It was a small fort, likely a cavalry fortlet holding 60 horses & soldiers. Probably meant to be a small, mobile force that could keep eyes on the peoples moving across the desert from the east. But there are many unknowns. We don't even know the name of the garrison.

Throughout the fort build, I have placed little signpost notes to help explain a bit what you see and why I put it there. I hope you have fun exploring, and maybe getting at least a little feel for what such a place might have seemed like, 1700 years ago.