“Because of the dynamics of shallow water, the sand keeps moving,” Sharvit explains. Katzin was diving there precisely when the movement of the waves revealed the sword.
How hominins predating humankind doomed the Crusaders at the Battle of HattinĪrchaeologists baffled by sea level rise on Israeli coast in Hellenistic periodĮvidently serendipity played a role. No Crusader army camps have ever been found. No, they didn’t find a Crusader ship or armor or anything else with it. And while the meter-long sword was found in association with artifacts from thousands of years of seafaring, it was a stand-alone find, Sharvit says. Other finds there include stone anchors from that time, iron anchors from the Roman period and artifacts from the Byzantine time.
