Karanis occupation dated 2 centuries later

[Imperial Dave]

https://arkeonews.net/radiocarbon-dating-shows-that-the-roman-settlement-of-karanis-survived-in-egypt-until-the-arab-conquest-in-the-7th-century-ad/

Interesting

[lionheartrjc]

Thanks. This seems to be a case of absence of evidence (no coins or papyri) being taken as proof that nobody lived there.

[Imperial Dave]

a dangerous assumption