“The hiding of the swords and the pilum in deep cracks in the isolated cave north of ‘En Gedi, hints that the weapons were taken as booty from Roman soldiers or from the battlefield, and ...

Four remarkably preserved Roman swords “in almost mint condition” — with their wooden and leather hilts and steel blades still intact after 1,900 years — have been discovered inside a ...

Archaeologists have found four Roman swords and a shafted weapon known as a pilum dating from 1,900 years ago in a cave near the shore of the Dead Sea in Israel. The rare cache of weapons was ...

The pilum was a Roman javelin crucial to the ... rendering enemy shields unusable. This weapon revolutionized Roman warfare, aiding conquests and solidifying Rome's military dominance during ...

The ancient weapons were secreted behind a wall of ... written on a stalactite when they spotted the iron point of a pilum—a Roman javelin—wedged among the rocks, as well as pieces of worked ...

It also contains a shafted weapon known as a pilum—a type of javelin used by the Roman army and generally measuring around 6 feet in length. "Finding a single sword is rare—so four?

A fascinating discovery in the Judean Desert: archaeologists unearthed a cache of well-preserved Roman weapons, including four swords and a shafted pilum weapon, believed to be around 1,900-years-old.