CNN — Two elderly people found burned to death in their home in Italy are among at least 40 people killed as wildfires rage across huge swaths of the Mediterranean. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday that the fires and extreme weather disasters are putting the country “to the test.” She came short of announcing a state of …
The shipwrecks rewriting ancient history Soprintendenza del Mare For centuries, historians believed that any physical evidence of the pivotal Battle of the Aegates was long gone. "No other naval battle from antiquity has been documented this well," says Ferdinando Maurici, archaeologist and the head of Sicily's Soprintendenza del Mare, a section of the Department for Cultural Heritage and Identity which …