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To: SunkenCiv

It would be great if they can rebuild it.
Excellent national park and tourist attraction.


4 posted on 12/10/2025 3:58:30 PM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: Doctor Congo

The great vessel built by Caligula to move the 320+ ton obelisk from Egypt was a spectacle in its own right. It wound up a tourist attraction, tied up along the Tiber. He’s also had a bunch of single-piece 200 ton columns quarried in Egypt and moved by ship to build his temple to himself on the Forum, but this ship was so enormous it impressed even the Roman public.

Claudius had the great ship sunk end-first and used as a form to pour the concrete for the great mole at one end of the breakwater. It’s probably still there to some extent. Much wood probably survives, but thanks to the concrete an exact negative image of the internal structure is buried to this day. Future research? We may see.

By the way, the narration of this piece sounds like it may be by Waldemar Januszczak. But if so he’s altered his presentation a bit. An example of more of his work:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4264215/posts


11 posted on 12/10/2025 7:06:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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