Nestled between the main artery of the Rhine and the secondary course of the Oude Rijn, the Dutch hamlet of Herwen (Gelderland) nowadays presents a bucolic appearance.
Halfway between Amsterdam and the German megacities of Westphalia, the village is located in a peaceful recess in the lungs of Europe.
It has not always been the case.
Two millennia earlier, a Roman fort, Carvium, had settled in the once marshy meanders of the Rhine delta.
There, at the edge of the world, legionnaires and auxiliaries scrutinized the Batavian border.
Between shifts, their lives were punctuated by visits to the nearby shrine;
not a rustic military chapel but, on the contrary, an important religious complex.
Discovered at the end of 2021, this 20-hectare complex has just been unearthed by Dutch archaeologists.
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The site, located at a place called Herwen-Hemeling, was monumental.
Researchers from the RAAP archaeological agency have unearthed a handful of temples, statues of…
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