2026年2月24日 / 美国东部时间上午9:36 / CBS新闻
海法大学周一透露，一名学生在以色列海法海岸游泳时”偶然”发现了一把十字军东征时期的古老宝剑。
该校海洋文明系学生什洛米·卡辛（Shlomi Katsin）在多尔海滩游泳时，看到一群手持金属探测器的潜水者，校方称。卡辛担心这些潜水者是文物窃贼，成功将他们赶走。随后，他发现一把剑从海底伸出，校方称这一发现完全是”偶然”的。
卡辛联系了海洋文明系教授黛比·茨韦卡尔（Debi Tsveikal）报告这一发现。茨韦卡尔联系了以色列文物局。校方表示，该局”批准了特殊许可，将宝剑从水中取出以进行保护并防止损坏”。
这把三英尺长的剑被打捞上来，送至该校莱昂·雷卡纳蒂海洋研究学院的保护实验室。随后被送往海法的梅迪卡·以利沙医院，在那里进行的CT扫描使研究人员能够在不损坏宝剑的情况下了解更多细节。照片显示，这把剑被贝壳和其他海洋沉积物覆盖。
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扫描显示，这把剑设计为单手使用，可能属于一名来自欧洲的十字军战士。剑刃有一处断裂，且该武器最初使用的大部分铁已被”时间和海洋的侵蚀”腐蚀殆尽，校方称。
海洋文明系教授莎拉·兰托斯博士（Dr. Sarah Lantos）表示，这把剑的发现极为罕见，为研究人员提供了”了解欧洲骑士在以色列生活的独特机会”。
卡辛报告发现的教授茨韦卡尔称，在以色列已知的十字军东征时期剑刃仅有几件。
“这一发现极大地有助于我们了解当时的海上锚地使用情况和战士生活，”她说。
据大都会艺术博物馆称，十字军东征发生在1095年至1291年之间，是一系列由基督教骑士发起的军事行动，旨在从穆斯林手中夺取地中海沿岸地区。战役发生在现今的以色列、土耳其、叙利亚和其他中东国家。十字军建造了堡垒来保护他们的新领地，双方在几个世纪里争夺这些领地的控制权，直到1291年该时代结束。
2021年，一名业余潜水者在以色列附近的地中海海底发现了一把年代可追溯至十字军东征时期的大型宝剑。
12th century Crusader sword discovered “by chance” by student off coast of Israel, university says
February 24, 2026 / 9:36 AM EST / CBS News
A centuries-old sword from the time of the Crusades was discovered by a student swimming off the coast of Haifa, Israel, the University of Haifa revealed on Monday.
Shlomi Katsin, a student in the university’s Department of Maritime Civilizations, was swimming off Dor Beach when he saw a group of divers with metal detectors, the school said. Katsin feared the divers were antiquities thieves and was able to chase them out of the area. Then, he saw the sword protruding from the seafloor, the university said. The discovery was entirely “by chance,” according to the news release.
Katsin reached out to Department of Maritime Civilizations professor Debi Tsveikal to report the find. Tsveikal contacted the Israel Antiquities Authority. The university said the authority “granted special permission to remove the sword from the water in order to preserve it and prevent damage.”
The three-foot-long blade was recovered and brought to a conservation laboratory at the university’s Leon Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies. Then it was taken to Medica Elisha Hospital in Haifa, where a CT scan allowed researchers to learn more details about the blade without damaging it. Photos show the sword covered in seashells and other marine sediment.
Crusader sword from the 12th century discovered off the coast of Haifa, Israel. Yoav Bornstein, University of Haifa
The scan showed that the sword was made to be held in one hand and likely belonged to a Crusader warrior from Europe. There was a fracture in the sword blade, and most of the iron that the weapon had originally been made from had been eaten away by “the ravages of time and the sea,” the university said.
Dr. Sarah Lantos, a professor at the Department of Maritime Civilizations, said that the discovery of the sword is rare and gives researchers “a unique opportunity to learn about the lives” of European knights in Israel.
Tsveikal, the professor who Katsin reported his find to, said there are only a few known blades that date back to the Crusades in Israel.
“This discovery contributes greatly to our understanding of the use of maritime anchorages and the lives of warriors during this period,” she said.
The Crusades took place between 1095 and 1291, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They were a series of military campaigns fought by Christian knights to take areas along the Mediterranean from Muslim control. The battles took place in modern-day Israel, Turkey, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries. The Crusaders built fortified castles to protect their new territories, and the two sides traded control of those territories over the centuries, until the era ended in 1291.
In 2021, an amateur diver found a large sword dating back to the Crusades at the bottom of Mediterranean Sea off Israel.
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