03-23-2007, 07:11 PM
Do we actually know anything about the route Drusus might have taken?
I just checked google earth and the area doesn't seem too populated, lots of fields to the east nowadays. would be interseting to search for the next marching camp. I know... :wink:
Someone mentioned Magdeburg as the possible area where Drusus reached the Elbe. What if he went straight east? the way eastwards is pretty flat ground. So what if he just went straight east and reached the Elbe near Torgau in Sachsen? approx 260km away, so maybe a 30 days march if everything goes well. that would mean 30 camps have to be between the camp near Goettingen and the Elbe.
Just wondered because my girlfriend is from that area and she just showed me pics of excavations in the area of Germanic settlements from the ironage and one from the 3rd century.
I just checked google earth and the area doesn't seem too populated, lots of fields to the east nowadays. would be interseting to search for the next marching camp. I know... :wink:
Someone mentioned Magdeburg as the possible area where Drusus reached the Elbe. What if he went straight east? the way eastwards is pretty flat ground. So what if he just went straight east and reached the Elbe near Torgau in Sachsen? approx 260km away, so maybe a 30 days march if everything goes well. that would mean 30 camps have to be between the camp near Goettingen and the Elbe.
Just wondered because my girlfriend is from that area and she just showed me pics of excavations in the area of Germanic settlements from the ironage and one from the 3rd century.
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