The swords were discovered by accident in the cave, which overlooks the Dead Sea north of the En Gedi oasis. A team entered the cave with the aim of using modern technology to try to reveal long-faded writing that is part of a known, extant ancient Hebrew ink inscription on a stalactite...
Israeli archaeologists show four Roman-era swords and a javelin head found during a recent excavation in a cave near the Dead Sea, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2023. Archaeologists said the exceptionally preserved artifacts are dated to the 2nd century, when Jewish re...
Israeli archaeologists show four Roman-era swords and a javelin head found during a recent excavation in a cave near the Dead Sea, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2023.Ohad Zwigenberg / AP Researchers, who published the preliminary findings in a newly released book, propose that the arms ...
The four swords, three of which were still inside their scabbards, were found pushed into a fissure of a cave in the Ein Gedi National Park near the Dead Sea, TOI reports. This particular cave is already known for an ancient Hebrew inscription of the First Temple period t...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Four 1,900-year-old swords, complete with wooden and leather scabbards, have been discovered in a remote cave in an Israeli desert, leading archaeologists to […]
Bassaros God, of universal might, whom swords and blood and sacred rage delight: in heaven rejoicing, mad, loud-sounding God, furious inspirer, bearer of the rod: by Gods revered, who dwellest with humankind, propitious come, with much rejoicing mind."...
The battle opened with the elephants charging the Roman lines. While a frightening sight to the Romans, Scipio's plan worked and the elephants went neatly into the open lanes. Scipio's men shouted and banged their swords on their shields, archers attacked the riders, and the spearman attacked...
There may be fewer amphitheatres and temples and swords involved in the latter, but there is something gripping about stumbling across pieces of forgotten industrial heritage left to waste away. This week, deciding to find somewhere new to walk the dog, we found ourselves in Helmsley in the ...
They fought with short swords, daggers for stabbing and a long spear for throwing. They also carried a shield for protection as well as wearing armor.The tactics were simple but versatile enough to face different enemies in multiple terrains: From the forests of Germania to the rocky planes ...
These are Eris (Strife) and Kydoimos (Cydoemus, Tumult), and the third is Kêr (Doom), to whom are subject all matters of war. For you see, surely, that she follows no one course, but thrusts one man, still unwounded, into the midst of hostile swords, a second is being dragged ...