A 2,000-year-old battering ram sunk during the First Punic War has been discovered ... The rams were mounted at the front of Roman warships to collide with enemy ships and cause them to sink.

Think Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146. For 118 years, they fought three Punic Wars until greater Roman growth and vitality finally allowed it to dominate the Mediterranean and dictate terms on ...

At the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, an ancient Roman battering ... of the First Punic War between the two cities, the initial conflict that kickstarted a series of wars that lasted for 23 ...