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 ...

The event marked the end of the First Punic War and the beginning of Rome's dominance over ... to understand the Battle of the Aegates had to rely on ancient historical accounts.

Long before airplanes and artillery, ancient battles ... the modern-day Egadi Islands of Sicily, leaving behind the wreckage of war. The Battle of the Egadi Islands (or Aegates Islands) took ...