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Five Shipwrecks Found Near Greece's Fourni Islands
Archaeology ^
| Tuesday, October 16, 2018
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Posted on 10/20/2018 12:46:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Greek Culture Ministry announced that five additional vessels have been discovered in the ship graveyard off the coast of the Fourni Islands, bringing the total number of ships found there to 58, according to an Associated Press report. The area in the Aegean Sea, at the junction of two main shipping routes, is known for its treacherous waters, and contains wrecks dating from the fourth century B.C. through the nineteenth century A.D. The newly discovered ships rest in shallow waters and show signs of damage from fishing nets and plunderers, but the archaeological team, assisted by local fishermen, found cargoes of amphoras that carried wine, oil, and other foods, and a load of terracotta lamps dating to the second century A.D. The lamps were made in Corinthian workshops, and bear the names of the artisans who crafted them, Octavius and Lucius.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; godsgravesglyphs; greece; navigation
This undated handout photo provided by the Greek Culture Ministry on Monday, Oct. 15 , 2018, shows a man holding a 2nd-century A.D. terracotta lamp with the incised name of its maker, the Corinthian artisan Octavius, on the base, one of a group found on the seabed off the island of Fourni. Greece's culture ministry says a Greek-U.S. team has located traces of five more ancient shipwrecks in the eastern Aegean Sea, raising to 58 the number of wrecks located since 2015 around Fourni, a notoriously dangerous point on the ancient shipping route.
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10/20/2018 12:46:52 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
10/20/2018 12:47:13 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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posted on
10/20/2018 12:47:41 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
Toll! Maybe Octavius invented the corporation.
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10/20/2018 2:00:49 AM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
To: Hoosier-Daddy
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posted on
10/20/2018 2:16:59 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
I knew it!!
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posted on
10/20/2018 3:59:13 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Democrats Hate America)
To: VeniVidiVici
A three hour tour?!? A three hour tour?!?
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posted on
10/20/2018 11:59:11 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
Problems with the nascent Greco-Roman tour industry back then :)
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posted on
10/21/2018 1:45:35 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Democrats Hate America)
To: VeniVidiVici
:^D
Travel for pleasure has come and gone a number of times, and was intertwined with pilgrimages of various religious traditions.
Travel in the Ancient World
by Lionel Casson
A gifted faker name Alexander founded an oracle in a backwater on the south shore of the Black Sea. Here, for stiff prices, a talking serpent he had rigged up answered questions for the local hayseeds... (p 135)
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posted on
10/21/2018 8:07:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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03/08/2022 8:38:45 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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