Thiras' Ships, (1500 B.C) Options

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Thiras' ships
(1500 B.C)



This is a sector where the technological achievements were just as much significant as the other of shipbuilding. From the very early years, in Greece, there were ships with a unique shipbuilding perfection. In 1973 the professor Sp. Marinatos discovered at the Cape of Thiras , magnificent frescos about seven well painting ships of the 1600 B.C – 1500 B.C period. It was so many the knowledges, that those frescos had provided us, for the structure of the ships of that period that fairly they characterized as unique.

The images of the ships of Thiras led us to the conclusion that the Krites or the Myceneans they had advanced shipbuildind abilities and techniques. Those ships, considered by the experts, very advanced for that period’s techniques and technology, therefore they refute all the known informatons about the geography, travels and generally about the marine activities of that period. The whole matter receives an important meaning because after that period the shipbuilding declined and started its blossom, again, more or less in 600 B.C, which is 1000 years later. It was then that Korithians made triremes, 40m long and they used 150 rowers in three rows and 50 more men for other needs of the ship.

There are so many questions about the potentials of the navigation that those ships had such as: they were used for the open sea or they were just patrolling the coasts, what capacity they had, what was their average speed, did they used navigation tools and if they did which ones, up to where place did they reached??? All these questions, and even more, stared to get answers in just the lates of 20th century. For instance it is proved that the ancient Greek sailors had reached to North Europe from the beginning of the 2nd B.C millennium.