New evidence has appeared regarding ancient naval presence on the island of Ustica, discovered by underwater excavation last summer carried out by Giuliano Volpe, archaeology professor at the University of Foggia, supported by "Archeologia viva" and the archaeological superintendence of Palermo.

Many of the traces of these ancient sea visits to Ustica (the island is halfway between Sicily and Sardegna, far from any coast) are exposed in a sunken museum, staged near Ustica, illustrated at the party Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologico, being developed in Paestum by Piero Pruneti, director of living archaeology.

The underwater visitor who follows the rocky paths of the island, explained Pruneti, will find lead anchors imprinted in the rocks, as a moving testimony to the violence of the winds that crashed against the moorings, forcing sailors to cut their chords and abandon their anchors on the rocks. "In a normal museum," commented Pruneti, "those contorted seabeds would lose all their spectacular drama."...