Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...

The pilum, a vital weapon in Rome’s imperial ambitions, was a simple iron spear fixed with two bolts onto a heavy wooden post. It was remarkably effective against an attacker charging at high speed.

Researchers, who published the preliminary findings in a newly released book, propose that the arms — four swords and the head of a javelin, known as a pilum — were stashed in the remote ...

Based on an initial examination, researchers said the swords were standard weapons employed by the Roman soldiers stationed in Judea in the Roman period. “The hiding of the swords and the pilum ...

He also carried a 'pilum' (javelin ... and kill expertly with all the weapons they carried. The toughest postings for soldiers were those at the frontiers of the Roman Empire, where legionnaires ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered four Roman-era swords in a ... haven’t yet carbon-dated the weapons—or the head of a javelin (known as a pilum) found alongside them—but they think ...

Three of the 1,900-year-old weapons, whose iron blades are 60-65cm ... Dr Gayer spotted a well-preserved Roman pilum, or javelin, in a narrow crevice. He also found worked wood in a nearby niche ...