Rome’s victory in the skirmish, officially called the Battle of the Aegates, brought an end to the First Punic War, the initial ... the Romans sank 50 Carthaginian ships and captured another ...

A 2,000-year-old battering ram sunk during the First Punic War has been discovered off the ... front of Roman warships to collide with enemy ships and cause them to sink. It's believed this ...