Remains of a Roman street from Legio, a military camp from the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, next to Megiddo (courtesy)
Posted on 07/08/2015 7:22:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The remains of an imperial Roman legionary camp -- the only one of its kind ever to be excavated in Israel or in the entirety of the Eastern Empire from the second and third centuries CE -- have come to light at a dig near Megiddo, archaeologists said this week.
Legio, a Roman site situated next to Tel Megiddo in northern Israel, served as the headquarters of the Sixth Legion Ferrata -- the Ironclad -- in the years following the Jewish Revolt, and would have helped keep order in the Galilee during the Bar Kochba Revolt in 132-135 CE...
In the century following the Jewish Revolt in 66-70 CE, Rome garrisoned two imperial legions in Palestine to keep order, one in Jerusalem and a second in the Galilee. Until recently, the location of the castrum -- Latin for a permanent military camp -- housing the Sixth Legion was uncertain.
The erstwhile presence of a Roman legio was preserved in the name of an Arabic village nearby -- Lajjun. But surveys and aerial studies of the site by Tepper in recent years pointed to the presence of a Roman military structure, and during the first season in 2013 the team found the first evidence of the military camp.
This season's excavations have unearthed large numbers of ceramic roofing tiles marked with the sign of the Sixth Ironclad Legion, clay pipes, sewer channels and several buildings, all of which attest to the high level of planning at the site...
The number of Roman military camps of this type found in the eastern half of the Roman Empire "is zero," said Matthew J. Adams, head of the Albright Institute and co-director of the dig...
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Remains of a Roman street from Legio, a military camp from the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, next to Megiddo (courtesy)
Thanks for this
Har Megiddo!
Thanks for this
Har Megiddo!
I’ve been there...it’s quite a sight.
Romanes eunt domus!
I was there on a trip led by Yigael Yadin.
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Oh Wow...He was great. That must have been amazing. :-)
Nice!
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The Roman destruction of Jerusalem in the Roman Wars/Jewish Revolt was at least as significant to the transformation of the Israelite nation as the Exodus was.
Thanks!
Sounds like a wonderful find.
I would love to visit the Holy Land, but there is no way I would chance having some moslem kill me.
Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Yes. It spread both the Jewish Faith and the Christian Faith all over the world. The destruction of Jerusalem and the resulting Diaspora were among the greatest tragedies in History, but something good did come of it.
And now, the Jewish People are back in their homeland. The gentile world has a real problem with that, it would seem.
I have been to that place in the wide rolling valley and walked through Joshua’s water tunnels
I believe one of Saddam’s SCUDS was targeted there and fell not far away
Some places on earth have a power
Thanks SC for undertaking the task of posting these historic articles. Do we get continuing ed credits?
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