900-year-old Crusader sword found by scuba diver off Israel’s coast
The 1-meter-long blade was spotted among other remains such as pottery and metal anchors in a site used as a natural anchorage as early as 4,000 years ago.
A sword believed to have belonged to a Crusader who sailed to the Holy Land almost a millennium ago stands in the water near to where it was recovered from the Mediterranean seabed by an amateur diver, the Israel Antiquities Authority said, Caesarea, Israel October 18, 2021(photo credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS)ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
