The number of ship rams recovered from the Egadi seabed keeps growing after each excavation season. My last count dated from 2019, when the counter had stopped at sixteen Roman and two Carthaginian rams (see: Still recovering ship rams from the Egadi Islands).
Today's latest news is that two more bronze rams were excavated in 2021, bringing the total discovered to twenty-five. I must have missed last year’s discoveries.
It is incredible that the battle site at the
The sheer scale and rampage of this battle are beyond our
imagination. Hundreds of ships sought to destroy their opponent by maneuvering
in such a way that the prow of the ship where the ram was situated would hit
the enemy in the flank and sink the vessel. The stakes were very high as
The diving site of Egadi has yielded many more objects made of non-degradable material like bronze helmets and cheek-pieces, dozens of lead slinger bullets, together with Hellenistic and Roman coins.
A vessel from the first half of the 4th century AD emerged from the
same area. It appears to be a big merchant ship loaded with amphorae made in
After 16 years of diving, the archaeological site of the
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