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Society of Ancients News: Undersea Athenian Naval Base at Piraeus Uncovered


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bsrlee writes:

Yes, a base for the stately Subquinquereme. People really should think their headlines through a bit more carefully.


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Society of Ancients writes:

The Zeaharbor Project that spent ten years in undersea excavation of the ancient military naval base of Piraeus has uncovered the enormous shipyard – one of the biggest complexes in the Ancient world – that housed hundreds of triremes used to defeat the Persian fleet in the 5th century BC. See a summary here.

And more detailed article here.

Artistic reconstruction of a penteres ('five') and the wide slipways at Zea Harbor.

Illustration: Yiannis Nakas

3D reconstruction of the double-unit shipsheds at Zea Harbor.

3D reconstruction: Brian Klejn-Christensen

An underwater archaeologist excavates remains of a ship shed at Mounichia Harbor, during a rare period of good visibility.

Credit: Vassilis Tsiairis/The Zea Harbor Project

An illustration of a ship shed as it may have looked 2,500 years ago, part of an enormous naval base built by the ancient Greeks.

Credit: Bjørn Lovén/The Zea Harbor Project

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