Posted on 09/07/2023 12:40:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
(Israel Antiquities Authority/YouTube) Israeli researchers made a rare find during a survey of a Dead Sea cave: Four perfectly preserved Roman swords thought to have been used in battle 1,900 years ago.
The swords were likely "booty" hidden by rebels from an opposing faction, who would have been in danger if they were caught carrying the Roman weapons, Eitan Klein, one of the directors of the Judean Desert Survey Project who worked on the dig, said in a statement.
Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave. (Ilan Ben Zion/Associated Press) On Wednesday, the Israeli Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of the cache in a small, almost inaccessible Judean Desert cave near the Dead Sea. In a video detailing their expedition, researchers said they removed the swords from a tight crevice in the cave.
"We are talking about an extremely rare find, said Dr. Eithan Klein, a Judean Desert Survey researcher with the Israel Antiquities Authority, "The like of which has never been found in Israel."
VIDEO AT LINK.................
Scientists said the swords featured wooden and leather hilts, wooden scabbards, and steel blades that were amazingly preserved after spending almost 2,000 years in a remote desert cave.
Eli Escusido, director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, said the swords were as sharp "as if they had only just been hidden away today," the BBC reported.
The archaeologists also found a Roman pilum, a heavy javelin.
The swords, the archaeologists said, were weapons typically used by Roman soldiers stationed in Judea.
Researchers discover the ancient Roman-era swords in a small crack of a remote cave near the Dead Sea. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority) "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 hidden by the Judean rebels for reuse," Klein said.
Klein said it is possible the weapons may have been stashed at the time of the Bar Kokhba Revolt of 132–135 BCE, but added that he and researchers are conducting further work to pinpoint who owned the weapons, where they were forged, and what historical events they could have been used in.
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Possibly hidden by a chef who got tired of soldiers using his good, sharp knives to stab people. Or from the wife who used them to cut toga hems.
“BCE” is used by leftists who reject God to avoid any reference to Christ
I came here for this! LOL
Also, What have the Romans ever given us!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
LOL - good one Zin
I know, I just read it as ‘Before Christ’s Enlightening’............
I read BCE as “Before the Christian Era”, and make sure I note that whenever I run across it when others are present. It pisses off Leftists / Atheists.
Actually, “BCE” and “CE” are used in Israel as a courtesy to heathens who don’t understand the actual Hebrew calendar.
Makes you wonder what happened to the person(s) that hid them and never came back.................
#BanAssaultSwords
Roman actually used short swords for close up and personal fighting................
That’s OK. I read it AM 3626.
The concealed carry laws were abolished and this is what happened.
Biden left them in Afghanistan?
The gladius was a short sword used by the infantry but the cavalry used a longer sword called the spatha.
Makes sense that a cavalryman would need a longer sword................
Liberty Safe Co. now to be renamed ‘Dead Sea Caves’...
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