Hand-making a sickle involves heating metal until it’s soft, then carefully hammering it into a curved shape. Once the blade reaches the desired form, it’s sharpened and smoothed to ensure ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. A small collection of twelve Canaanean sickle blades was retrieved from the excavation at Naḥal Refaʼim. Six tools, two cores and four ...

Dark tendrils of seaweed lie glistening on the rocky shore, and a lone figure in orange waders moves methodically along the bay, slicing the seaweed with a sickle-shaped blade known in Gaelic as a ...