A new museum showcasing thousands of ancient archaeological artefacts found at sea will open next year at the Greek port of Piraeus near Athens ... from which its distinctive trireme ships would sail ...

Filming for Christopher Nolan's Hollywood epic "The Odyssey" begins in Greece, with feverish preparations underway by ...

Greek warships had oars as well as sails. The largest warships had three banks of oars and were called ‘triremes’. A trireme needed 170 men to row it - one man to each oar. It was steered by ...

According to Greek Travel Pages ... The exhibition's centerpiece will be a replica of an ancient trireme, built at a 1:2 scale using 3D technology. The replica of the ancient Roman ship, measuring ...

According to the Ancient Greek historian, Thucydides, it was the Corinthians who first developed the trireme, possibly as early as the 7th century BC. (1.12.4 - 13.2) They in turn based their ...

Finding herself trapped between the deadly Greek triremes and the utterly bewildered Persian fleet, she determined to break out. Pursued by a trireme she calmly and expertly rammed a friendly ship ...

Greek warships had oars as well as sails. The largest warships had three banks of oars and were called ‘triremes’. A trireme needed 170 men to row it - one man to each oar. It was steered by ...

Athens (AFP) – A new museum showcasing thousands of ancient archaeological artefacts found at sea will open next year at the Greek port of ... which its distinctive trireme ships would sail ...