Four Roman swords and the head of a javelin known as a “pilum” were discovered by Israeli archeologists inside a remote cave near the Dead Sea, in an area that was known as a hideout of Jewish ...

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.

A cache of ancient weapons from the Roman period has been discovered hidden in a remote cave in Israel. The cache includes four exceptionally well-preserved Roman swords from 1,900 years ago, the ...

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.

"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 purposely ...

The pilum was a Roman javelin crucial to the empire's military success. Its design featured a long iron shank with a pyramidal head, intended to bend upon impact, rendering enemy shields unusable.

Initially, a shafted weapon similar to a javelin known as a Roman pilum was discovered squeezed in the rocks' cracks, along with pieces of wood that were part of the swords' scabbards, or sheaths.

The 1,900-year-old Roman shafted pilum weapon found in a cave in the Judean desert. (Dafna Gazit/IAA) One of the 1,900-year-old Roman spatha swords which was hidden, likely by Jewish rebels, in 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.