More warship rams from the Battle of the Aegates found near Sicily
Three more bronze rostra - one of which has already been retrieved - from the Battle of the Aegates (Italian Battaglia delle Isole Egadi) have been found at a depth of 85 metres, off the coast of the island of Levanzo, the smallest of the three main Aegadian Islands in the Mediterranean Sea west of Sicily, Italy.
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The deadly weapons of war, mounted in the front of warships for ramming and sinking enemy ships, are added to the thirteen rostrums already recovered in previous campaigns.
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The archaeological research in the deep sea, which began in 2004, has allowed the identification and recovery of eleven Roman and two Carthaginian rostrums, twenty-one Roman helmets of the Montefortino type, as well as a large number of amphorae and other artefacts.
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Source: La Repubblica [August 13, 2018]
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