Marsala Ship the ship's ballast. The above pictures of the Marsala ship execavation are from the Regional Archaeological Museum Baglio Anselmi of Marsala in Sicily, Italy. Marsala Ship The Marsala Ship is the earliest warship known from archeological evidence. It is a wreck discovered in 1969 in an area called "Punta Scario" in the harbor of Marsala in western Sicily, Italy, near the Aegadian Islands. The Marsala Ship's "nationality" was painted on the sides with letters by its Punic builders from Carthage. Its architecture and contents show that it was not a merchant cargo ship. A merchant cargo ship made regular journeys
Chrobry fortified village in Szprotawa Chrobry fortified village in Szprotawa The Chrobry fortified village (Polish: "Gród Chrobry", German: "Wallburg Chrobry"), named for the Polish first crowned king Boleslaw Chrobry, and located in the town of Szprotawa (), is an archaeological earthwork and a historical monument in the province of Lower Silesia, one of the largest of its kind in Poland. The site lies in the old Bóbr river valley, in the Park Słowiański nature reserve, and comprises a polygonal plateau of in size, which is raised 6 metres above its surroundings. The surface of the polygon is flat throughout, and has regular, steep inclined edges.