An international team led by Ladislav Stančo, Charles University in Prague, identified a temporary fortified position on Iskandar Tepa Hill in southern Uzbekistan from the Hellenistic era, following a study published in 2026 in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. These camps, made of ditches and wooden palisades, quickly efface the landscape and often escape archaeologists. The Greek military camp found here betrays its presence by a …
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An international team led by Ladislav Stančo, Charles University in Prague, identified a temporary fortified position on Iskandar Tepa Hill in southern Uzbekistan from the Hellenistic era, following a study published in 2026 in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. These camps, made of ditches and wooden palisades, quickly efface the landscape and often escape archaeologists. The Greek military camp found here betrays its presence by a …