The trove of ancient artifacts – four swords and the ... I was able to retrieve that artifact — the Roman pilum head, which came out almost in mint condition,” said Asaf Gayer, an ...

Pictured are a shafted pilum weapon (top ... examination found that they were standard swords used by Roman soldiers stationed in the ancient territory of Judea. Following the discovery ...

Read more: Tools Used By Early Explorers The swords ... another style often associated with Roman infantry. "The hiding of the swords and the pilum in deep cracks in the isolated cave north ...

While making their way through the cave, Gayer noticed something stuck in a narrow crack in the rock: a well-preserved Roman pilum ... the scabbards of the four ancient swords.

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...

Archaeologists in London have uncovered a section of Roman masonry that belongs to a ... discoveries in the British capital since an ancient amphitheater was unearthed in the 1980s.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of London's earliest-known ancient Roman basilica on the site of a planned 32-story skyscraper, right in the heart of what was once known as Londinium.