UK–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013. A one-day colloquium, hosted by the University of Oxford, is to examine new finds from the site of the final naval battle between Rome and Carthage in the First Punic War (in 241 BC). The 23-year long naval war was between the two great powers of the Mediterranean for control of Sicily. The Egadi Islands Project has so far yielded a total of 10 ancient bronze warship rams, mostly recovered from a site on the sea-bed off the western coast of Sicily.
