Sicily Archive
Underwater Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Coastal and underwater caves in southern Sicily hold key clues about early human migration to the island, according to Washington University scientists' archaeological
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent archaeological excavations conducted at the Archaeological Park of Selinunte have yielded significant findings. Thanks to the latest field works, archaeologists found new buildings
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists exploring the depths off the coast of Sicily have made a remarkable discovery. They found an exquisite marble fragment that was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A historical shipwreck has been successfully recovered from the seabed off the coast of Misiliscemi in the Trapani area, Sicily. The 11-meter-long Roman
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists exploring the waters on the Western coast of Silicy have discovered dozens of ancient artifacts dating back to the Battle of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered an outstanding unfinished ancient marble carving of a lion's head in Sicily. During excavations led by Professor Dr. Jon Albers,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How should we relate to the traditional historiography on ancient Sicily? The prevailing view has been that the indigenous population had neither territory,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - On March 10, 241 B.C. the Carthaginian fleet was totally defeated near the Aegates Islands off western Sicily by the Romans. The event
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Featured Stories
David Tee - AncientPages.com - From humble beginnings rose a man who many throughout history have called a tyrant. Agathocles’ birth is not recorded but his father was
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Civilizations
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The name may bring fear to many, as this ancient society is forever linked with those who cause destruction to property - vandals, and
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Triskelion is a mysterious ancient symbol that has never been explained. It has been found in Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish contexts. Tri-Spiral
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Several over 800 year-old graves that could belong to the Normans, have been unearthed by Polish archaeologists excavating a medieval cemetery near the medieval church of San
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most of us would say it's difficult to understand how someone who deliberately killed hundreds of people could be hailed a hero. However, those
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A shipwreck sunk 2,600 years ago, off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily and the story of this ship is still fascinating
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - You might have tasted a Garibaldi biscuit that consists of two soft rectangular slabs of biscuits sandwiching a bed of currants, but do
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News
AncientPages.com - On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1846), a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily discovered a faint, distant object, correctly believing it to lie in
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On This Day In History
AncientPages.com - On September 3, 36 BC, the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus, near Messina, Sicily, met in the naval Battle of Naulochus.
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AncientPages.com - On September 3, 36 BC, the naval Battle of Naulochus was fought between the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus, near Messina,
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