Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a 2,000-year-old temple built by an ancient civilization featured in Indiana Jones.The Mail is late to the party; this discovery is a year and a half old. But the coverage and photos are good.The religious temple had a rectangular plan and two rooms with access to internal routes of the vicus Lartidianus, an area designated for foreign people engaged in trade.
The discovery off the coast of Puteoli, modern-day Pozzuoli, marks the first known temple built by the Nabataeans, nomadic Arabian merchant civilization who hailed from Jordan, outside of the Middle East.
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A link in the article leads to another article about the recent remarkable discoveries at Al Khazneh in Petra. It too has decent coverage and good photos; heavy on Indiana Jones, but also of the excavated chalice. It really does look like the one we last saw following Elsa Schneider down the chasm in the film.
For more on the submerged Nabatean temple excavated off the coast of Puteoli, see here, here, and here.
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