A sword believed to have belonged to a crusader who sailed to the Holy Land almost a millennium ago has been recovered from the Mediterranean seabed, thanks to an eagle-eyed amateur diver, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Monday, Oct. 18. Though encrusted with marine organisms, the meter-long blade, hilt, and handle were distinctive enough to notice after undercurrents apparently shifted sands that had concealed it. “Actually it’s heavy. It’s heavy because of the stones that are glued to it and also because it’s iron sword and very big one,” Yaakov Sharvit of the IAA said. “There are others, bigger than this one, like what we call two-hands sword, but this is still very heavy. Video credit: Reuters “That means that the guy that held this sword and fight with it was very strong. I’m trying to imagine him on the field with all the armor on him and the sword and …
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