Fogg's Archeologists Discover Roman Roads And Old Forts Build by Trajan in Yugo-Slavia

Of major importance among the finding of the Fogg museum's archeological expedition to Yuge-Salvia are a Roman military road and a chain of forts built by the Emperor Trajan early in the second century. This Investigation, whose results have been announced this weekend, was conducted during the summer and fall of 1933, under the direction of Dr. Vladimir J. Fewkes and Rober W. Shrich, assisted by two attaches of the National Museum in Belgrade.

The large number of forts erected by Trajan and uncovered by the expedition, was apparently built to facilitate the campaigns against the Daclans. For 150 years after they were erected, ten ingots were stationed in these forts, from Bavaria to ten Black Son.

Yugo-Slavia is one of the richest and last known regions in Europe, from the stand point of ancient civilizations, for this area was the first recipient of Original culture, and in its turn, transmitted the new traits to the rest of continental Europe.

An interesting fact was the way in which the Harvard expedition was able to profit from the terrific fighting of the Great War, for the shell holes and trenches on the Salonika front revealed many archaeological deposits that might otherwise have been long concealed. The expedition also made the discovery that the early Macedonians, the Roam legions, the Trurks, the modern Serbians, and finally the armies of the Great War all used many of the same strategic points, with the result that today ruins of many successive fortifications throughout centuries are often found on a single site.

Fantastic stories of hidden treasures are often found in the Balkans, due to chance discoveries of ancient coins by natives. Members of the expedition were guided to many sites by peasants who had found antiquities when plowing, or who had obtained stones for building from some ancient ruin. Native traditions and correspondences in present and ancient place names were helpful to the archeologists, as was the assistance given by schoolmasters and gendarmes.