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Yes, it is!

Thanks for the overview and the great hinting! I hope that my image is going to be a challenge: I'll provide a clue every second day.

Thanks for posting it Caldrail,I've had the chance to read it now and I was very happy to find a reference to coin from Knossos there! Her are some pictures: Insel Kreta Knossos Stater 320/300 v. Chr. 10.56 g. Kopf der Demeter mit

Thanks a lot! I'm currently holding Steven Sidebothams Berenike and the ancient maritime spice route in my hand and he states that: "these rough surface dimensions suggest that a ship less than 19-22 meter wide [sic] with a length less than 60-61 m, possibly as little at 36-37 m, could fit in this space [the harbor moors]" He also suggests that these ships were of medium to large size and adds that a normal size in the Mediterranean sea was 10-45 m, based on actual remains.

Well I figured out that they were called "the salted fountains" and are situated 1.5 km south of St-P

I also got a feeling like "hmmm... 15.000 crocodiles are on the loose. Let's check my schedule for the day, hmmm. Play in the flooded park - scratch; shopping in the (under water) mall - scratch; stay inside - check." Seriously, no warning should be needed, at least nothing more than that they lost 15.000 crocodiles.. Rest should be self explanatory.

Do you know any other good books on Hellenistic naval topics Bryaxis? Perhaps in the bibliography? I tried to find the book you mentioned at my university library, but it seems that it is too new for us...

15,000 crocodiles escape from South African farm. This could be bad...

Ah, you're building up the excitement!

Perhaps. I know very little about ancient ships, but I believe the length of a perfectly normal (semi-local) merchant vessel would be between 20 and 30 meters, although smaller 10 to 20 meters ships certainly existed - I have seen one myself. Further on, a trireme was about 35 meters long but it's a war ship and I'm unsure about how it would compare to grain ships. A trireme was, however, a fairly small war ship during the Hellenistic period from which the antikythera wreak originate. Archaeologically I know of two ships over 60 meters from the greeco roman period: the ones at Nemi which meassured over 65 meters each (I believe one was close to 70). In the ancient literature we find that Isis (probably a fantasy ship) was a marvel to behold at ca 55 meters (Lucian - The Ship of Wishes 435-437).

Well it wouldn't really be that strange with such a large ship, I don't even know why they are making such a big deal about it. Much much larger ships had been used by the military long before this and I am sure that the Athenian grain fleet included something this big. Fair enough, 60 meters would be a lot but not even comparable to giants like Hierons Syracusia, later Alexandria (depending on that length estimate you prefer).

I really wanna see this... Might have to take a trip to London just for the exhibition.

More coming up: Famed Roman Shipwreck Could Be Two Famed Roman shipwreck reveals more secrets News from the Antikythera Wreck

Just my reaction And thanks for letting us know what is going on, we've been a little bit out of the loop lately.

Ha! A lot of reading later and I am going to guess Avallon in France!

We apologize of the downtime the last couple of days. The exact cause behind the failure is not known to me at this moment, but I will make sure you give you all the information I get as soon as I ever can. Further on, it is our hope that it has caused no inconvenience beyond a slight UNRV abstinence. The Legatii

Is it a bath?

Here's the labyrinth from Mycenae: I apologize from the dreadful quality, but the museum is really poor lit.

It's ridiculous for any crime that does not inflict serious harm on one or more persons. It's actually about 4 times longer in jail than you can get in Sweden (in practice) for anything...

Oh sorry, I should have added that. Yes, this is a graffiti found on a pillar in the peristyle of Casa di Marcus Lucretius Fronto (boy, do I hate myself for not getting a private photo of that!), but I have seen the exact same style on a roman graffiti from Mycenae and I'm quite sure that I'm having a photo of that at home. I'll upload that later.

Oh yes, I don't agree one bit with his methods (that it must be for free, because it should be free, because everything non physical should be free...in absurdum) or with what he did (and I might add that I have very little sympathy for film and music companies loosing money to pirates). It's not like researchers make a lot of money from their very hard work - fact is that you almost need to pay people to publish you. I actually even doubt jStore makes that much money to be honest. Even so, threatening him with such a draconian punishment (35 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines) that he committed suicide, what's the point really?

Never heard of any religious connection and Roman (and Greek) labyrinths often looks (as far as I know) like the one on the picture below - I have seen several myself. This one says Hic habitat Minotauros (here lives the Minotaur) and comes from Pompeii.

This feels real bad after reading this story (International Herald Tribune). "Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old technology wunderkind [...] killed himself on Friday, [...] In 2011, he was arrested and accused of using M.I.T.

Well there's only a video so I can't tell you very much, but it looks nice! Video

No it was a ship most likely loaded with plunder goods from Sullas campaigns in Greece :)I just love an informative comment! But on a serious not, definitely going to read this later. Thanks!