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. The rare cache of weapons was ...

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? It's a dream!

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 pilum, a vital weapon in Rome’s imperial ambitions, was a simple iron spear fixed with two bolts onto a heavy wooden post. It was remarkably effective against an attacker charging at high speed.

While inspecting the upper portion of the cave, Ariel University archaeologist Dr. Asaf Gayer noticed a Roman pilum — a long javelin-spear — in a hard-to-reach crevice.

The swords were discovered after an iron point of a Roman javelin called a pilum and pieces of worked wood were first found in the cave southeast of Jerusalem and beside the Dead Sea; researchers ...

Researchers, who published the preliminary findings in a newly released book, propose that the arms — four swords and the head of a javelin, known as a pilum — were stashed in the remote ...

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 ...