A naval ram is a weapon fitted to varied types of ships, dating back to antiquity. The weapon comprised an underwater prolongation of the bow of the ship to form an armoured beak, …

Bronze Roman naval ram (< 241 BCE); with the Goddess of Victory and inscriptions referring to two Roman officials Beginning in 2010 bronze warship rams have been found by …

In antiquity, the naval ram was a weapon that dominated Mediterranean naval warfare for nearly five hundred years. The use and devastating force of the ram is evidenced in the ancient …

2024年8月26日 · And now, a sunken relic from that pivotal conflict, a ship’s ram, has been discovered beneath the surface of the sea. This ram is an artifact from a decisive moment in …

2024年9月6日 · Excavations off the western tip of Sicily have revealed a bronze rostrum—a type of battering ram attached to the front of a Roman warship—dating to the famous battle of the …

2021年9月3日 · For 23 years on the seas from Sicily to North Africa, warships clashed with their battering rams — four of which have just been found. Each of these colossal artifacts was …

2021年9月1日 · Four ancient bronze Roman battering rams, the kind used at the front of a battleship, have been discovered by divers near Ustica Island, north of Palermo, Italy. These …

2024年8月28日 · 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, …

2024年8月29日 · A Roman warship battering ram from 241 B.C. was discovered by divers off the coast of Sicily and was used in a major battle the Romans won

ram, appurtenance fixed to the front end of a fighting vessel and designed to damage enemy ships when struck by it. It was possibly first developed by the Egyptians as early as 1200 bc, …