Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Underwater archaeologists have discovered remnants of a sunken military warship from the second century BCE in the Egyptian bay of Abū Qīr, located 32 kilometers northeast of Alexandria. The ship is ...

The geometry behind ancient naval warfare with Greek ships was a brutal, practical science that determined who lived and who died on the Mediterranean. It doesn’t take much to realize that one wrong ...

The Greek writer Clement of Alexandria, drawing on earlier works, explicitly attributes the invention of the trireme to Sidon, the great Phoenician city. According to the great historian Thucydides, ...

Discover the Acropolis Museum's Aquatic Routes gallery talk, exploring water's role in ancient Greek culture through a 5th-century BC trireme relief and artifacts. Learn about the hero Paralos and the ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology analyzed 279 trireme names recorded in 4th-century BCE inscriptions and concluded that the ancient Athenians carefully selected names ...

Not to get all “Greek Trireme vs. Viking Longboat” History channel on you, but I have played enough Assassin’s Creed to know the difference. In fact, the boat in question appears to be the ...

A NEW museum showcasing thousands of ancient archaeological artefacts found at sea will open next year at the Greek port of Piraeus near Athens, officials said on Feb 17. The European Union-funded ...

According to the culture ministry, it will display more than 2,500 antiquities including many now in storage in Pylos, Rhodes and Paros. In antiquity Piraeus was the principal port of ancient Athens, ...

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the new 26,000-square-metre (31,000-square-yard) building would display “thousands of finds emerging for years from the depths of the Greek seas”, without ...

Athens: A new museum showcasing thousands of ancient archaeological artefacts found at sea will open next year at the Greek port of Piraeus near Athens, officials said on Monday. The EU-funded ...