The boat is entirely wooden and has only one sail
The vessel was designed from archaeological evidence
Local boatmakers said they had never done anything like it before
Posted on 03/24/2008 1:41:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
On the ancient Syrian island of Arwad, which was settled by the Phoenicians in about 2000 BCE, men are hard at work hammering wooden pegs into the hull of a ship. But this vessel will not be taking fishermen on their daily trip up and down the coast. It is destined for a greater adventure – one that could solve a mystery which has baffled archaeologists for centuries.
The adventure begins not in Arwad but in Dorset, where an Englishman has taken it upon himself to try to prove that the Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa thousands of years before any Europeans did. Philip Beale has commissioned the building of a replica Phoenician ship that he plans to sail around the continent with a crew of 20. Their 10-month expedition sets off in August and will follow the route that seafaring Phoenician merchants are said to have taken more than 2,500 years ago. Apart from navigation and communications equipment, Mr Beale's crew will have none of the comforts of a 21st-century vessel. If they run into difficulty, they will have to rely on old-fashioned brawn – and row...
Mr Beale had the idea for his unusual quest when he read the works of Herodotus, who wrote about the Phoenician voyage. According to the Greek historian, their journey began on the shores of the Red Sea, when the Egyptian King Necho asked a group of Phoenician seamen to attempt the first near-circumnavigation of the continent in 600 BCE. Mr Beale's crew will use the Suez Canal to reach the point of their predecessors' departure.
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Cat Does Experimental Archaeology
Category: Archaeology • Humour
Posted on: March 24, 2008 8:20 AM, by Martin R
it’s probably littered with other such links. ;’)
Briton to recreate first African circumnavigation
Mon 19 May 2008, 15:19 GMT
By Jeremy Lovell
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL19251251.html
The boat is entirely wooden and has only one sail
The vessel was designed from archaeological evidence
Local boatmakers said they had never done anything like it before
I think the description of the author that the Phonecians had ‘flimsy wooden boats’ denigrates their boatbuilding and sailing skills.
By the way, someone is building a copy of a Greek boat found in the Danube marshes to recreate the Black sea voyage of Jason and the Argonauts. Maybe we’ve already posted it.
.....Local boatmakers said they had never done anything like it before.....
Because the boat originated in the Gulf and is a dhow?
Yup, it has been posted. There’s also a replica of a Minoan ship, and that’s posted somewhere. Hmm, maybe I’ve got the links in a file...
Minoan ship to ply Greek seas for first time in 3,500 years
Discovery Channel ^ | Fri Oct 3, 2003 4:41 AM ET | editors
Posted on 07/25/2004 7:54:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1178453/posts
Replica of 3,300-year-old shipwreck arrives in Bodrum [ Uluburun II ]
Turkish Daily News (thanks, CurmudgeonII) | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 | unattributed
Posted on 07/02/2006 9:51:33 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1659519/posts
Centuries after Jason mythed the boat, another team has a go
The Age | April 24, 2006 | Deborah Kyvrikosaios
Posted on 05/27/2007 9:23:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1840776/posts
Replica of ancient ship to follow part of Argonauts’ route
The Star (Myanmar) | Sunday June 15, 2008 | unattributed
Posted on 06/16/2008 3:02:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2031961/posts
Wow!
Thanks for posting this. Very exciting.
Somewhere around here (probably in the earlier topics about ancient circumnavigation of Africa and whatnot) there’s stuff on Herodotus’ account of the clockwise CN of Africa, which was commissioned by a pharaoh; also, stuff regarding the Periplus of Hanno, which pertains to Carthaginian exploration of the western coast of Africa at least as far south as Mount Cameroon.
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