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To: SunkenCiv

I was fairly certain that you knew that the ship was a Trireme the post was more for the benefit of others


26 posted on 08/11/2018 12:56:29 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

I may have tracked down the craft in the photo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7da52cJLwW8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INGl8LB9Zxo

Those warships were amazing pieces of engineering, and the reproductions made in recent times are just best guesses. I’m pretty impressed with the ancient merchant ships as well.

The late Lionel Casson described the ancient arms race as the later Greek and Hellenic city states built larger and larger vessels, to the point where they really couldn’t be moved by manpower any longer. The biggest one was such a tourist attraction, when the Romans conquered Greece, they towed it to Italy and up the Tiber and apparently charged admission. :^)


28 posted on 08/11/2018 9:00:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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