The team have now unearthed the relics from dozens of shipwrecks – findings that are now painting a detailed picture of the battle. "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 overlooks the discovery and protection of cultural artefacts found in the sea around the island.