From Hand-drag to Jumbo: A Millennium of Dredging

IADC (International Association of Dredging Companies) ^ | 1999 | IADC

[SunkenCiv]

In the 7th century BC, the Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed an 80-kilometre-long, 20-metre-wide stone-lined canal to bring fresh water to his capital Nineveh. Compared to 20th century standards, one is surprised to learn that the project, which included a 330-metre-long aqueduct, was completed in only one year and three months time.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic will be a sort of catchbasin (': for quotes about various canals of antiquity.

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[SunkenCiv]

The Canal Of Xerxes In Northern Greece
B. S. J. Isserlin, M. Arvanitis, R. E. Jones, V. Karastathis, St. P. Papamarinopoulos, P. Stephanopoulos, G. Syrides, J. Uren
Hellenic Society for Archaeometry

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus describes how a canal was constructed in northern Greece on the orders the Persian King Xerxes in around 480 BC to allow the Persian fleet safe passage into the Aegean in advance of its invasion of Greece; he records that it was some 2 km long and was wide enough for two triremes to pass side by side. If this account is true, its construction must have been a remarkable engineering operation for its time. Until now, no archaeological fieldwork has been carried out to verify whether indeed it was a canal, or whether, as some have postulated, there was instead a slipway (diolkos) across the isthmus.

Over the last decade a British-Greek team has carried out a non-invasive investigation at the supposed site of the canal (on the Athos peninsula of the Chalkidiki) to resolve this question. Geophysical and topographic surveys and analysis of sediments from boreholes have demonstrated the veracity of Herodotus' account: the powerful combination of seismic refraction survey in conjunction with sediment analysis revealed the presence of a canal now buried some 15 m below present ground surface; the canal seems to have been short lived (Jones et al 2000; Karastathis et al 2001).

This paper has two main aims: first to demonstrate the role of integrated input from geophysical survey and analysis of sediments from cores, and second to present the results of the last phase of the project. In the latter, seismic survey again coupled with sediment analysis found no obstacle to the canal meeting the sea at its southern end, contrary to one ancient writer who recounts that the ground was too rocky to allow construction of the canal there. At the northern end of the canal, a 3-D and 2-D seismic refraction tomography survey successfully detected the canal, following a course that differs from that expected. This course is compared with what is observed in a LANDSAT image of the area.

Bravo for the Father of History.

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http://www.livius.org/ga-gh/germania/drusiana.html

"The Fossa Drusiana was the canal between the rivers Rhine and IJssel, dug by Roman soldiers at the end of the first century BCE. The project was probably in some way connected to the mole at Carvium. The canal still exists as the upper course of the IJssel; two radiocarbon-dates from the oldest deposits of this river suggest that they date back to the beginning of our era... A more recent interpretation points to the fact that the ancient sources speak about the canals of Drusus, and suggests that a second canal connected Lake Flevo with the Wadden Sea."

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Note: this topic is from 7/30/2004. Just a ping message update, with some Petra keyword links, chrono sorted:

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• Reconstructing Petra [2007]
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[BenLurkin]

https://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/saywhat.wav

[Bob Ireland]

***a second canal connected Lake Flevo with the Wadden Sea***

Thank goodness! ...and none too soon!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Compared to 20th century standards, one is surprised to learn that the project, which included a 330-metre-long aqueduct, was completed in only one year and three months time.

When a king who literally had his brothers balls cut off tells you to dig, you dig.

[oldvirginian]

“one is surprised to learn that the project, which included a 330-metre-long aqueduct, was completed in only one year and three months time.”

Amazing what can be done with no EPA or unions to deal with.
Didn’t hurt that balky bureaucrats could be executed. :-)

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, it wasn’t even 16 years old, and hadn’t been pinged in more than 7 years — and it’s obvious that it needs more attention. :^)

I mean, it’s no “Bison Hunters in PreColumbian Illinois”, but it’s still a hot topic of interest to many. ;^)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1476377/posts

[Red Badger]

... was completed in only one year and three months time.

Well, yeah, he didn't have the EPA, the Unions or a Zoning board to put up with!...................

[Red Badger]

GMTA!...................

[Sawdring]

I like the font!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! That was back when I used Comic Sans MS for postings, and yours are the first positive remarks I've ever rec'd for using it. :^) There used to be an internet subculture devoted to an unexplained hatred of CSMS. I became fond of that font due to a frequent poster who used it over on The Globe, a now-vanished forum system that went public in what was, to that date, the largest IPO in history. Then the company founders had enough cash to afford their own planets, oops, I mean, the notion of free online services without any visible means of support turned out to not work, so they shut down the whole works.