Kicker - Pointed discovery

NICK EICHER, HOST: An Israeli scuba diver recovered an ancient object off the Mediterranean coast this week.

It was covered in barnacles but as he lifted the object to give it a closer look—it resembled a sword.

So the diver took it to antiquities experts who said it appears to be made of iron likely dating back 900 years.

Yaakov Sharvit is director of Marine Archaeology, audio from Huffington Post.

SHARVIT: We have to clean it. Maybe there is a name on it. Maybe there is decoration. And that : will also give us more information about the knight who hold this beautiful sword.

Authorities think it’s possible the sword belonged to a knight of the crusades.

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