The battering ram was once attached to the bow of an ancient warship. Sicily Superintendence of the Sea In 241 B.C.E., two empires faced off in a naval clash off the coast of Sicily. By then, Rome ...

Ancient Greek and Roman warships were equipped with bronze rams to smash and sink enemy vessels – and a team of archaeologists has just recreated one. They plan to test the weapon on replica ...

More than a dozen elite Greek marines dressed up like Bronze Age warriors and practised ancient fighting techniques — all in the name of science. The 13 soldiers, all members of the Hellenic ...

The ram, a structure made of a bronze casing over a wooden base, projected from the bow of the ship below the waterline. Its main objective was to cause critical damage to the enemy ship’s hull, ...

The cast-bronze sculpture, which has been on display at the entrance to the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries since 1999, was previously in the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

Now, explorers have recovered a piece of that final battle: the bronze battering ram of an ancient warship. According to a statement from Sicily’s Superintendence of the Sea, the ram was found ...