Marine archaeology: The battle that ended the First Punic War - shared by Grant Michael McKenna, 3 May 2022

I don't recall seeing mention of these discoveries before. 

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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.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220426-battle-of-the-aegates-the-shipwrecks-rewriting-roman-history?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook

• Kevin McCarthy

  I went to Trapani - they have the reconstructed hull of a roman vessel there that was retrieved a few years earlier.

  

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  Vincent Cholewa

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  A dentist and a battle that changed history. The end of the first Punic War:

  'The last battle took place around the Aegadian Islands off the western coast of Sicily, when Romans intercepted ships carrying much-needed supplies to Carthaginian troops caught in a siege on Monte Erice. The exhausted army had no choice but to surrender. "And Sicily became Roman," Oliveri says.'