A Roman camp has been unearthed at Armageddon – the place earmarked by the Bible for mankind’s apocalyptic final battle.
The 1,800-year-old camp housed more than 5,000 soldiers from the Sixth Ironclad Legion, and lies at the foot of Tel Megiddo in northern Israel.
In the Book of Revelation, Tel Megiddo is where the kings of the world are brought together by demons to do battle, before God unleashes his terrible wrath.
Its Hebrew name, Har Megiddo – meaning Mount Megiddo – was rendered as Harmagedon in Greek, leading to its present infamous moniker.
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I’ve enjoyed reading up on the Italian Army camp in the middle of Israel. One of my long time peeves is that the archeological digger crowd has a penchant for way overstating the number of people that might have used any particular hole in the ground.
In this case they’re saying 5,000 troopers used it. I’m saying maybe more like 500, at least at any one time. Maybe over 180 years the rotation might have been way bigger.
The whole place is about 43 acres. There is not enough agricultural ground within sight to grow food for 5,000 troops plus their support folks. The Romans tended to have at least one servant/slave per trooper. And some wives, cooks, shoe shine boys, and wives.
For this place to have maintained 5,000 troops continuously there would have to have been a really large high rise condo. And then there would need to be a couple of really big John Deere tractors, rigged for serious plowing/planting. Remember these folks were farming with sharp sticks and that would require huge acreage and labor?
And then one has to wonder if part of the plan is to clear off the huge stone foundation up north at Balbek so’s the mothership will have a place to land when the whole armageddon thing lights up?
Interesting.