Coal miners found the remains of a Roman boat that likely supplied an ancient frontier city and military ... was towed from the shore or driven by oars, and in suitable situations the ship could ...

Archaeology supports that 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast Asia were well-versed in boatbuilding and open-sea ...

This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean. ... who operated 14-feet-long oars. Finally, at the end of the boat was a stern curved towards the interior like a scorpion's tail and two ...

Ancient Egyptians depended on the ... This painted wooden boat with four figures includes three oarsmen. Their oars are missing, but there are openings where they joined the hands.

Smaller than gondolas, "sandoli" are ancient boats that have been used by everyday Venetians for centuries. Today, they whisk travellers to quiet corners Venice where other boats can't go. It is ...

A Swedish archaeologist has sailed a replica Viking boat for 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers), which helped him to identify what he says are four previously unknown harbors along the coast of Norway ...

CAIRO, Egypt — Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the ...

A steerer stands at the stern of the boat and guides the direction of the boat with the steering oar. The boats all have a carved likeness of a dragon’s head on their bow. The ornamentation is a ...

Using a supply list from an ancient clay tablet, experts have reconstructed a large Bronze Age ship from 4,000 years ago and sailed it around the Persian Gulf. CNN values your feedback 1.

Coal miners in Serbia have discovered the remains of a large wooden boat likely used by the Romans to supply a ... but they think it may be from the third or fourth centuries A.D. They suggest the ...

these ancient boats started to be replaced by gondolas. "It's clear that being able to go with two oars [in a sandolo] is an evolution because it allows you to go faster. However, the gondola ...