Archaeologists believe the swords were hidden by Judean rebels after they were seized from the Roman army as booty. "This is a dramatic and exciting discovery, touching on a specific moment in ...

Roman soldiers spent a long time training and practicing ... the soldiers on the outside stabbed at them with their swords. The Romans also had soldiers who were expert archers.

JULIA: I just found this fragment of rusty metal. It doesn’t look like much but this was once a sword. A sword known as…the gladius! The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment ...

Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword, called a gladius ... At the northern limit of the Roman Empire was Britain. Soldiers and their families found it to be a cold, remote, hostile ...

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Three swords with iron blades were still protected ... Researchers believe the weapons were likely stolen from Roman soldiers by Judean rebels, who hid them away in the cave either for later ...

The two toy swords are like those available in the Vindolanda gift shop Two Roman swords and a pair of ... was the "ancient equivalent of a modern soldier abandoning a malfunctioning rifle".

The swords, the archaeologists said, were weapons typically used by Roman soldiers stationed in Judea. "The hiding of the swords and the pilum in deep cracks in the isolated cave north of 'En Gedi ...