New Thoughts on Decline of Roman Town in Egypt

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN—According to a Newsweek report, Laura Motta of the University of Michigan and her colleagues radiocarbon dated plant remains recovered from the site of Karanis and found that this Roman agricultural settlement in Egypt's Fayum Oasis was probably abandoned later than previously thought. Thousands of people are thought to have lived in Karanis, based upon the residential neighborhoods, production facilities, granaries, temples, and the bath complex that have been unearthe