An Italian ethnical heritage outfit has announced the retrieval of a Roman banging read/write memory from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea .
The ram , or rostrum , made up the prow of a Romanist war vessel . It was used in the Battle of the Aegates , the team stated , a naval battle between Rome and Carthage that mark the end of the first Punic War in 241 BCE , after 23 eld of conflict between the two empires .
The breakthrough of the stump , announced by Sicily ’s Department of Cultural Heritage ’s Superintendence of the Sea , was recuperate by divers with the Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites . The recuperation team also used the research vesselHerculesto help in the rostrum ’s identification and recovery .
A bronze battering ram recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.Photo: Soprintendenza del Mare
The dive squad found the soapbox on the ocean bottom at a depth of about 262 feet ( 80 meters ) . The artifact was recovered from a reaching of the Mediterranean between Levanzo and Favignana , humble islands just west of Sicily , where archaeological surveys have been conducted over the last 20 days . According to LiveScience , the ram is now on land in Favignana , and initial subject of the artifact has revealed an decorative relief of a helmet and feathers .
Since the early 2000s , 27 rostra have been found , according to the team ’s social mediapost . The rostra were used for — you guessed it — pound enemy ships , with the goal of punching holes in them , ultimately sinking them . Other ancient wartime artifact have also been key in the team ’s surveys , including 30 Romanist helmet , two sword , and a relatively common find in Mediterranean archaeology , plenty of amphorae .
The Mediterranean Sea near Sicily and Tunisia was a pop marine corridor during the Roman Empire — or at least it seems so based on recent archaeological findings . Last class , a UNESCO - coordinated mission found three shipwrecks off the unreliable Keith Reef between Sicily and Tunisia , one of which was dated to between 200 BCE and 100 BCE . That inquiry team also take three Roman wrecks off the Italian coast , two of which were 1st - hundred merchant vessels and one of which dated to the first - 100 BCE .
The lately recovered rostrum is older than those wreck , however , and is a remarkably vivid windowpane into an ancient battle , and the fierce naval conflicts that shaped the ancient mankind . The Battle of the Aegates saw most of the Punic fleet drop or captured , and resulted in Roman Catholic supremacy on the Mediterranean . All told , there were three Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome , which resulted in the destruction of Carthage .
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