2,500-Year-Old ‘Sacred Pool’ Uncovered on Sicilian Island
dig at the former island - city of Motya have revealed a large sacred pocket billiards that the ancient Phoenicians used for religious intent and to tag the movement of maven , harmonise to new enquiry . Newresearchin the science journal Antiquity presents a novel rendition of an stilted basinful , love as a “ kothon , ” on the former island urban center of Motya in western Sicily . The generator of the new paper , led by archaeologist Lorenzo Nigro from Sapienza University of Rome , say the structure is not a military harbor as ab initio believed , but a “ sacred pocket billiards at the centre of a monumental refuge with possible astronomical functions ....