Ancient Ships’ Discovery Thought to Be Near
Italian archeologists think they are on the verge of finding the ancient ships downed in the battle of the Aegates Islands between Rome and Carthage in 241 BC.
Experts from Sicily and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in Austin, Texas, used sonar and multi-beam bathymetric technology to scan the seabed around the islands, west of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea.
“We’re certain we have found the location of the battle, but we have yet to discover how much was actually preserved,” Sebastiano Tusa, Sicily’s chief of marine culture, said Friday.
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