The fourth sword was shorter ... After reading about the discovery of these Roman swords, read the story of the man who governed Judea a little over a century before the Kokhba Revolt, Pontius ...

is one of the few surviving examples of a Roman "scutum," the most popular shield type from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. It was excavated from the ancient city of Dura-Europos ...

Several were kneeling when they were struck from behind with a sword. Archaeologist ... and quadrupled in the 4th Century," she said. "As it was part of the Roman army, directly or indirectly ...