"The shipwrecks rewriting ancient history" Topic
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Tango01  | 24 Feb 2023 8:48 p.m. PST |
"For centuries, historians believed that any physical evidence of the pivotal Battle of the Aegates was long gone. Then came a chance discovery – which led to dozens of shipwrecks. Dentists are not normally known for changing history. And yet a dentist in Sicily has played a small part in rewriting the history of one of Europe's most important battles.
In the early 2000s, the late archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa was visiting the home of a dental surgeon in the town of Trapani when he noticed the bronze beak of a Roman ship, known as a rostrum, on full display. The dentist told him that it had come from a fisherman – who had paid for the work on his teeth with the ancient artefact…"
Main page link Armand |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 24 Feb 2023 10:50 p.m. PST |
Very interesting!  |
| Berzerker73 | 25 Feb 2023 6:59 a.m. PST |
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 ColCampbell | 25 Feb 2023 8:45 a.m. PST |
A more detailed view of Tusa's finds (in both Italian and English): PDF link And the Wiki article has a good description as well: link Jim |
| Legionarius | 25 Feb 2023 2:56 p.m. PST |
Unless new written sources are discovered archaeology is our only way of learning more about the past. |
| Tango01 | 25 Feb 2023 10:50 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it…
Armand
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