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    The Nemi ships were two ships, of different sizes, built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD on Lake Nemi. Although the...
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    Lake Nemi (Italian: Lago di Nemi, Latin: Nemorensis Lacus, also called Diana's Mirror, Latin: Speculum Dianae) is a small circular volcanic lake in the...
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    Nemi is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome (central Italy), in the Alban Hills overlooking Lake Nemi, a volcanic crater lake. It is 6 kilometres...
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  • This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly...
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    Trapani. The Nemi ships were two ships, of different sizes, built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD on Lake Nemi. Although...
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    "Houseboating in ancient times: thalamegos, lusoriae, cubiculae and the Nemi ships as ancestors of nowadays floating houses trend". Nautical and Maritime...
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    bearing supporting a rotating table from the remains of the Roman Nemi ships in Lake Nemi, Italy. The wrecks were dated to 40 BC. Leonardo da Vinci incorporated...
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    Rome List of oldest surviving ships List of longest ships List of longest wooden ships Museum ship List of museum ships Archaeology of shipwrecks Area...
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  • lists many types of ships. The expression naves longae (lit. "long ships") is the plural of the noun phrase navis longa ("long ship"), following the rules...
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    wreckers; hence, Ptolemy I Soter had the lighthouse built to help guide ships into port at night. The etymology of "Pharos" is uncertain. The word became...
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    those times. In 2019, the Phoenician Ship Expedition by Philip Beale used a replica of an ancient Phoenician ship to sail from Carthage, Tunisia to Santo...
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    1895) Bronze in the shape of a hand (Nemi ships) Bronzes in the shape of heads of various animals from the ships of Nemi In "Room XI" there is a Domitian-era...
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  • The Gokstad Ship burial– from Kongshaugen, Vestfold, Norway, discovered in 1880, is the largest preserved Viking ships in Norway. The ship was found by...
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    Anchor (category Sailing ship components)
    has been used since antiquity. The Roman Nemi ships of the 1st century AD used this form. The Viking Ladby ship (probably 10th century) used a fluked anchor...
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    Hatti, and all my ships are in the Land of Lukka? ... Thus, the country is abandoned to itself. May my father know it: the seven ships of the enemy that...
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  • two larger ships carrying the obelisk. The third ship’s purpose was to help steer the two aft ships and have rowers and sail power the ship across the...
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    they landed, the Spanish ships arrived in Guam and were unable to get fresh food as the inhabitants, Chamorros, "entered the ships and stole whatever they...
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    placed lower in the ships, and fire from gunports, to avoid ships becoming unstable. In Northern Europe the technique of building ships with clinker planking...
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    from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo—and the reconstructed (August 2021) Khufu ship, a solar barque, which was transferred from the Giza Solar boat museum beside...
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    allowed it to function as a borderhop deme as it could easily be seen by ships nearing Attica. The original, Archaic-period temple of Poseidon on the site...
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  • or a similar ship was used to transport the obelisk in St. Peter's Square from Egypt on the orders of Emperor Caligula. Caligula Nemi ships Allaby, Michael;...
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    Dido by telling how, rallying the other survivors, he built a fleet of ships and made landfall at various locations in the Mediterranean: Thrace, where...
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    Hatti, and all my ships are in the Land of Lukka? ...Thus, the country is abandoned to itself. May my father know it: the seven ships of the enemy that...
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  • is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include...
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    number, 1,000 ships, while Plato, speaking in general terms refers to 1,000 ships and more. Herodotus gives a precise list of the ships of the various...
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    Caligula's Giant Ship De Meern ships Isis Madrague de Giens Nemi ships Marausa Yassi Ada Nordic Nydam ship Lists: Oldest surviving Museum ships Surviving ancient...
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    settlement. Archaeological remains of these clinker-built ships include the Oseberg ship and the Gokstad ship. These show some development from earlier vessels...
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    steering gear mounted on the stern. According to new research, the advanced Nemi ships, the palace barges of emperor Caligula (37–41 AD), may have featured 14-m-long...
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    as moving commodities by land was more difficult. Vehicles, wheels, and ships indicate the existence of a great number of skilled woodworkers. Land transport...
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    Syracusia (category Ships of the Hellenistic period)
    Baochuan Caligula's Giant Ship Isis Jong Nemi ships List of world's largest wooden ships Timeline of largest passenger ships Hirshfeld, Alan (2009). Eureka...
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