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A crudely fashioned slingstone projectile about an inch long, made of lead and inscribed with the word "Learn," was discovered in the necropolis outside the Greco-Roman clifftop city of Hippos.
The small but deadly "bullet" was found in late 2025 with the help of a metal detector about a quarter-kilometer outside the city wall, near the bed of the Sussita stream. It dates to more than 2,000 years ago, say Michael Eisenberg and Arleta Kowaleska of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, the archaeologists leading the excavation of the once-sparkling city overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
