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Gordon Franz/Courtesy of Gabriel Barkay

PIERCING DISCOVERY. Amid the scattered bones and artifacts in an undisturbed tomb repository, excavators discovered scores of iron arrowheads used by the Judahites and one bronze Scytho-Iranian arrowhead of the type that was used by Babylonian soldiers during the siege of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. The pointed tips from several of the iron arrowheads were found bent or broken, indicating they had actually been used in battle.