A team of Moroccan and Polish archaeologists discovered a Roman watchtower at the Zeggota pass, north of the thousand-year-old city of Volubilis (near Meknes), as part of the “Tingitana Frontier” project, which ran from April 18 to May 3, said the National Institute of Archaeology (INSAP) in a press release on Monday.
At the location, they uncovered “Roman soldiers’ equipment, military spearheads, and Roman ceramics, as well as remains of the tower walls.”
The institution stated that this is the second Roman tower to have been excavated to date in Morocco.
The excavation was led by Professor Fadwa Benjaafar, teacher-researcher at INSAP, Professor Aomar Akerraz (also from INSAP), Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski, co-director of the project for the Center for Mediterranean Archaeology at Warsaw University, and Maciej Czapski from the same institution.