Researchers have discovered a hidden fortification system buried beneath a Bronze Age village in Italy. Known as Villaggio dei Faraglioni, the settlement is located on Ustica, a small island north of Sicily. It has an "orderly urban plan" consisting of huts and narrow roadways built on the island's northern edge, according to a translated statement from Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).

Using instruments such as ground penetrating radar and electrical tomography (imaging below the surface), a team of archaeologists and geologists found the remnants of the buried wall, according to a study published in the January issue of the Journal of Applied Geophysics.