A 2,000-year-old bit of battlefield trash talk has turned up in northern Israel. Archaeologists excavating the Hellenistic city of Hippos, just east of the Sea of Galilee, uncovered a lead projectile ...

For millennia, sling bullets served as a hand-thrown projectile that could be used to fend off enemies. At Hippos, 70 sling bullets made of lead have been recovered over the course of fieldwork and ...