These are located around 70 miles to the southwest of Sicily, in the Sicilian Strait bounded by Sicily and Tunisia. Archaeologists reveal insights into Roman history through coin discovery.

A rchaeologists have discovered a trove of ancient silver coins "hidden in a hole in the wall" on a Mediterranean island near Sicily, possibly during a pirate attack more than 2,000 years ago.

Boxes containing cocaine float in the Sicilian Strait off Catania in this picture made available by the Italian Financial Police. Some two thousand kilograms of cocaine, left afloat in open waters ...

Boxes containing cocaine float in the Sicilian Strait off Catania. Photo / AP. Italian police scooped up two tons of cocaine, wrapped in protective plastic and bobbing in the sea off eastern ...

The bridge along the Messina Strait is “Italy’s Apollo project,” Francesco Costa, a Sicilian podcaster, told me. The state has spent more than 1 billion euros on studies, models, stipends ...

At its narrowest point the strait is 3.1 kilometres (1.9 miles) wide, with the port city of Messina on the Sicilian side and the Calabrian city of Villa San Giovanni on the mainland.

Boxes containing cocaine float in the Sicilian Strait off Catania in this picture made available by the Italian Financial Police on Monday, April 17, 2023. Some two thousand kilograms of cocaine ...