Posted on 07/05/2013 10:04:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Israeli archaeologists have found ruins they believe are the site of one of the two Roman legions based in the country between 120 and 300 C.E.
Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Yotam Tepper had long suspected that the site in the Galilee was the base of the Legio Sexta Ferrata, the 6th Roman Legion, also known as the Ironclad Legion. The other legion in the country was the 10th, based in Jerusalem.
Over the past week, an expedition led by Tepper and archaeologist Matthew Adams found the base of a battery or wall, a moat surrounding the camp, water pipes, a covered sewage channel, coins and tiles. The legion's symbol adorned a broken shingle...
Excavations and surveys over the years found the locations of the Jewish village Othnai in the Megiddo Prison compound, and the Roman-Byzantine city of Maximianopolis near Kibbutz Megiddo. To find the legion camp, Tepper conducted field surveys and relied on surveys from the past...
Tepper and Adams analyzed an enhanced high-resolution satellite photo and could clearly make out the square marking the camp's boundaries; each side was around 250 meters long. A ground-penetrating radar scan provided further evidence. Student volunteers from the United States, Europe and Australia helped out..
According to Tepper, the chapel offered evidence of an ancient Christian community whose members included Roman officers. This was the period before Christianity was recognized as a religion, and well before it became Rome’s official religion. The chapel was apparently abandoned at the end of the third century.
Tepper believes the legion camp was also abandoned around that time. “You can see that the camp wasn't destroyed but was abandoned in an orderly way," he says. "From here they moved east across the Jordan River.”
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From Wiki...
Common Era (also Current Era[1] or Christian Era[2]), abbreviated as CE, is an alternative naming of the traditional calendar era, Anno Domini (abbreviated AD).[3] BCE is the abbreviation for Before the Common/Current/Christian Era (an alternative to Before Christ, abbreviated BC). The CE/BCE designation uses the year-numbering system introduced by the 6th-century Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus, who started the Anno Domini designation, intending the beginning of the life of Jesus to be the reference date.[4][5] Neither notation includes a year zero,[6] and the two notations (CE/BCE and AD/BC) are numerically equivalent; thus “2013 CE” corresponds to “AD 2013” and “399 BCE” corresponds to “399 BC”.
The expression “Common Era” can be found as early as 1708 in English,[7] and traced back to Latin usage among European Christians to 1615, as vulgaris aerae,[8] and to 1635 in English as Vulgar Era. At those times, the expressions were all used interchangeably with “Christian Era”, and “vulgar” meant “not regal” rather than “crudely indecent”. Use of the CE abbreviation was introduced by Jewish academics in the mid-19th century. Since the later 20th century, use of CE and BCE has been popularized in academic and scientific publications, and more generally by publishers emphasizing secularism or sensitivity to non-Christians.
I like this answer.
They were WAY ahead of the Gazans who have no real, effective plumbing or anything for that matter...oh, wait, yes, they have their own rocket manufacturing plants and that’s about it. Guns always over butter for the ARABS.
I think I'll toss out "Christian Empire" and "Before Christian Empire" some time and watch for some linda blair style headspinning. ; D
C.E. is “Common Era”, and is used in non-Christian sources and countries (which is much of the world) in place of A.D.
Roman Legion Camp from 130-300 AD discovered
Thanks for the ping. This base was probably used during the 2nd Jewish rebellion about 135 AD.
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I thought CE stood for "Christian Era"?
Oh well... It does for me.
I’m sure it does. For you.
AD. “CE” stands for “Common Era.” (and BCE=”Before the Common Era”). It is the politically correct form of using AD, “Anno Domini” (the year of our Lord) without acknowledging Jesus as Lord.
All academic publications now use CE and BCE as we wouldn’t want to offend anyone, would we?
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