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SQUILLACE, Italy, July 24 (UPI) -- The foundation of the ancient city of Scylletium could rest just yards offshore from the Italian town of Squillace, local officials said Friday.
Architect Alessandro Ciliberto, an amateur scuba diver, was swimming about 15 yards off the sea wall at Squillace when he found a group of stone blocks that appeared to be man-made, the Italian news agency ANSA reported Friday.
The Squillace town council said the ruins may belong to the ancient seaside city of Scylletium, founded when southern Italy was a Greek colony.
Scylletium became a Roman colony in 124 BC and was the birthplace of 6th-century Roman writer and statesman Cassiodorus, who claimed Scylletium's founder was the Greek king Ulysses.
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