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Four 200kg Roman bronze battering rams recovered off the coast of Sicily (www.dailymail.co.uk)

Originally attached to the bows of warships, the rams were used against the Carthaginian fleet during the Battle of the Aegates, west of Sicily, that ended the First Punic War in 214 BC.

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