The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) recently made an intriguing announcement regarding the discovery of four remarkably well-preserved Roman swords concealed in a cave nestled within the Judean Desert. The swords were stumbled upon by Dr. Asaf Gayer of Ariel University’s Department of the Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, who noticed them in a remote

Maharashtra is in talks with the Centre to be guarantor for the journey of the sword, gifted by Shivaji IV to the then Prince of Wales, to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the warrior king’s coronation. ‘Jagdamba’, the ceremonial sword of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji, may soon return to Maharashtra from a museum in