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Helmet from Pivotal Ancient Naval Battle Recovered - Archaeology Magazine
Bronze Montefortino helmet EGADI ISLANDS, ITALY—Finestre sull’Arte reports that an extraordinary artifact linked to a momentous historic event was recovered from the seafloor in the waters of the Egadi Islands west of Sicily. Divers from the Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites recovered a well-preserved Roman helmet belonging to a soldier involved in the 241 b.c. Battle of the Aegates, in which Roman and Carthaginian naval fleets cl…
The sea of Sicily keeps in its background an archive of Antiquity and our common Mediterranean history. The last surprise has been the discovery of a bronze Roman helmet in exceptional conservation condition. It was recovered last August in the waters that bathe the Égadas Islands, archipelago of small mountainous islands facing the western coast of Sicily. It is a Montefortino model, the type of helmet used by Roman legions between the IV and I…
Archaeologists found a Roman helmet almost intact in the Égadas Islands, lost in the naval battle of 241 BC, along with ancient weapons and objects
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