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Second Crusader Sword Discovered Off Israel Coast Five Years After First Find
Five years after uncovering a barnacle-covered Crusader sword off the coast of Israel, diver Shlomi Katzin has returned to nearly the same location—and found another. The new find is already drawing attention from archaeologists, not just for its rarity, but for what it suggests about medieval activity along the region’s shoreline. A Chance Encounter Turns…
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A Roman-Era Ceremonial Barge Resurfaces in Alexandria’s Sunken Royal Harbor
The waters off Alexandria’s ancient Portus Magnus have yielded an extraordinary surprise: the remarkably preserved hull of a luxurious thalamagos, a pleasure-and-ritual barge once used in the early Roman period. Resting beneath the silt of the submerged island of Antirhodos—once home to palaces and temples of the Ptolemies—the vessel has re-emerged as one of the…