Recent excavations near Megiddo exposed the main road and at least one major building at Legio, the site of a Roman military base that housed Rome’s Sixth Ironclad Legion from the second to fourth centuries CE. In anticipation of new roadwork, salvage excavations were conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority. This work revealed the camp’s main thoroughfare—the Via Pretoria—as well as the foundations of a monumental public building. “Two main roads intersected at the center of the 600-yard-long and 380-yard-wide camp, and its headquarters were erected here,” said Yotam Tepper, director of the IAA excavations. Unfortunately, few of the buildings […]