The war on March 10 was called the Battle of Aegusa, which saw the Roman fleet sink 50 Carthaginian ships that led to the end of the First Punic War. Accounts also say the Romans captured 70 ...

From those measurements, Dr Royal and his team calculate that the ships could not have been more ... Egadi Islands in 241BC brought the First Punic War to an end after 20 years of fighting.

The two powers were fighting for dominance in the Mediterranean in a series of conflicts called the Punic Wars. Archaeologists ... prolonged tip of the ship's bow that was used to slam into ...

Main battles fought in Sicily during the First Punic War. Credit: Hel-hama / Cristiano64 / Wikimedia Commons In the end, however, the consul managed to escape the encirclement accompanied only by ...

Over the course of almost 140 years they fought what became known as the Punic Wars: (The name Punic derives from the Romans’ word for the Carthaginians, Punicus or Poenicus, which refers to ...

As the Greek historian Polybius later wrote, the Romans sank 50 Carthaginian ships and captured another ... go on to fight a second and third war against the Punic people, winning each time.

The Carthaginian ships were hiding from the Romans and could ... Rome captured the small Mediterranean island in the First Punic War in 255 B.C., but lost it a year later. In 217 B.C., in the ...