In a Sea of News: Stories from the Discovery to the Museum Display of the Punic Ship-Wreck of Marsala (TP)
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https://doi.org/10.13138/2039-2362/3649Keywords:
Marsala , Punic ship, Honor Frost, Archaeological parks and museums, Newspaper articles, ArchaeologyAbstract
Scientific articles are the medium through which information is given about the discoveries of an archaeological site. When this need for communication was transferred to the general public at the beginning of the second half of the 20th century, the news was entrusted to the press for dissemination. The present work reconstructs the history of the Punic ship of Marsala (TP), from its discovery in 1969, following the phases of its reassembly, to the inauguration of the archaeological museum at Baglio Anselmi in 1986. Over a hundred articles from local Sicilian and national newspapers dealing with the discovery of the first Punic wreck found off the Stagnone Lagoon (TP) were analysed. The contribution aims to answer some fundamental questions in the field of public archaeology: how useful the press can be to reconstruct the facts, which personalities intervened as protagonists in the affair and what impact it had on public opinion.
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