pigs

In the shadow of Tel Megiddo, a hill with apocalyptic associations dating back to pre-Christian days, a Roman military camp once existed at the center of the empire's eastern frontier. Now, an extraordinary archaeological find – pig jaws - has uncovered potent physical evidence of a unique Roman funerary practice, one that to this point had been indicated only by classical writings. At the Legio site, permanent base of the Legio VI Ferrata (Sixth Ironclad Legion) during the early 2nd to late 3rd centuries AD, archaeologists discovered the pit of pig jaws -intentionally dumped close to a Roman burial ground. This discovery might represent the first archaeological evidence in the eastern Roman provinces of the funerary pig sacrifice mentioned by