Archaeologists are currently studying the ship in its underwater grave and will decide what to do with it once their research is complete. There are no photos available at this time of the find.
Archaeologists are currently studying the ship in its underwater grave and will decide what to do with it once their research is complete. There are no photos available at this time of the find.
Ever posted about Atlantis? (Yeah, I know, I'm not the first one to have asked that.)
Wow, first claaa, luxe outboard rowing seats for the galley slaves.
It looks to be in remarkably good shape.
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2015/01/10/divers-discover-metal-linked-to-mythical-island-of-atlantis-in-ancient-greek-shipwreck/ "A team of divers have discovered dozens of pieces of ancient metals from a shipwreck, aged 2,600 years, off the coast of Sicily island, in the south of Italy. According to “Archaeology Magazine,” the wreck belongs to a Greek ship, which carried ingots of a rare metal that Plato thought was mined in Atlantis". 🎶Way down below the ocean...she may be...2,500 years ago.
Before Socrates was born.
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The ship pictured is a Trireme, a warship
The article suggests that the ship found was a trade vessel
Was it the Argos?
Some badass machines of the day.
Be fun to row in one, even in regards to the following, where Aristophanes, in his comedy play The Frogs, refers to the common habit of the upper banks of oarsmen “farting in the face of those below”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXZvnChcmw
This series of about ten episodes describes how alexander sailed over waters that are now dry land to lands on the Oxus river. His troops made it through the lands being fought over oow in Afghanistan, turkministan and uzbeckistan.
You can see the actual Jason’s golden fleece in use tiday and the truly ancient mines for Lapiz still being mined today
