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Deepwater Sub Recovers Roman Battering Ram Used in Carthage in Punic Wars Battle
The 2,200-year-old artifact was used in a famous battle between Rome and Carthage as part of the Punic Wars.
The discovery of the rostrum, announced by Sicily’s Department of Cultural Heritage’s Superintendence of the Sea, was recovered by divers with the Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites. The artifact was recovered from a stretch of the Mediterranean between Levanzo and Favignana, small islands just west of Sicily, where archaeological surveys have been conducted over the last 20 years. Other ancient wartime artifacts have also been identified in the team’s surveys, including 30 Roman helmets, two swords, and a relatively common find in Mediterranean archaeology, plenty of amphorae.
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