Diver finds 900-year-old iron sword dating back to the Third Crusade.
The sword found on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, along with other artifacts, could"piece together the historical puzzle of Israel," said director of the Israel Antiquities Authority.A 900-year-old iron sword found off the coast of Israel on Oct. 16 by an amateur diver is believed to be a relic from the Crusades.
Shlomi Katzin found the sword on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea along with other artifacts, including stone anchors and pottery fragments. But the sword was the most"priceless" and"extremely rare" artifact according to Jacob Sharvit, who leads the Israel Antiquities Authority's Marine Archaeology Unit.
The sword weighed 4 pounds, measured to be 4-feet-long and dates back to the Third Crusade which was launched when three European monarchs tried to retake Jerusalem after its fall to the Muslims. During the Third Crusade, King Philip Augustus of France, King Richard I , and Holy RomanEmperor Frederick I , set out to retake Jerusalem. Saladin, the ruler of an area covering modern Egypt, Syria and Iraq, had conquered it in 1187, John Cotts, a professor of medieval history at Whitman College, told the New York Times.
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