MYSTERY: New photo comes with lots of clues

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CLUE: All we can tell you about this Mystery Photo is that it is a mountain scene. Unless you get some clue from that tin can hanging on the fence post. If you think you know where this is, send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live.

15.1006.mysteryThe recent Mystery Photo was a tough one. Several readers remembered the movie, Patton, thinking that they garnered from seeing it that the photo was made in various parts of North Africa. They were right, though only one person named the specific place. Ruthy Lachman Paul of Norcross identified the photo as “Pastoral valley of olive groves and agricultural fields, 18 miles north of Meknes, Morocco, are the towering glory of the remains of the ancient Roman city Volubilis. These remains are impressive and are evidence of an important administrative center and a agricultural center of Roman Empire in the second and third century. Volubilis was the county seat farthest western edge of the Roman Empire, and attracted farmers settled barbarians and Romans, Muslims and Jews. The site, which was declared in 1997 Aonsk international cultural heritage site.” The photo came from Donny Loeber of Norcross.

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