Dr. Eve MacDonald
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 13 Sep
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And it's so interesting because it it it answers questions and it brings up lots of questions.
But underwater archaeologists um searching the seabed floor off of the island of Levanzo, which is one of the Agati Islands, the northernmost.
found um these big bronze rams.
And this has been over the past 20 years.
These excavations have unfolded and they've found all these br these rams that have were attached to ships that were sunk in this battle.
And we know this because some of them are stamped with the Roman consuls' names and other ones have Punic inscriptions and sculptures on them.
And
We have um helmets, these Monte Fortino type helmets that make
The bowl ones, yeah, for the
Well both sides would have been using both sides if you think about it, because Monte Fortino is a Celtic kind of
helmet and the Carthaginians used Celtic soldiers too.
So it's interesting.
We don't know which side they belong to, but they both would have used them.
And we we have the helmets and we have the rams and we have the ceramic vessels, the amphorae that were on some of the ships.
And so it's absolutely astounding that we can see scattered across the seabed.
the detritus of this incredible battle in which uh many soldiers' lives were lost and marines and ships were sunk.
And it was
Again, close fought.
Uh you know, uh uh uh could have gone either way, but the Carthaginians lose this battle.
They's the more of their ships are sunk, according to our sources, and they sue for peace.
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