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 ...

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 Israel Antiquity Authority announced the find on Wednesday, saying researchers originally entered the cave in hopes of photographing a prior discovery of ancient ... as a Roman pilum was ...

An ancient Roman sword found in a cave off the Dead Sea ... week the discovery of four 1,900-year-old Roman swords and a pilum stowed in a cave in Ein Gedi Nature Reserve, on the west bank ...

Asaf Gayer noticed a Roman pilum — a long javelin-spear — in ... Read more: Tools Used By Early Explorers The swords themselves were remarkable, each with either a crafted wooden or metal ...

They were found in a near-inaccessible crevice by a team photographing an ancient inscription on a ... I was able to retrieve that artifact - the Roman pilum head, which came out almost in mint ...

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.