Sentences with phrase «ancient seafaring»

As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners.

«I think water crossing goes with modern language and with modern art,» says Geoff Irwin, an expert on ancient seafaring at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

In January of 2012 the Costa Concordia, the largest luxury liner built in Italy, manufactured at the Fincantieri shipyards in the ancient seafaring city of Genoa to the highest standards of safety specified by law, struck a reef in the Mediterranean, and partially capsized, killing dozens of people.

Although researchers have studied scores of Roman ships, finding a much older Minoan wreck «would add 100 % new knowledge», says Shelley Wachsmann, an expert in ancient seafaring at Texas A&M University in College Station.

Ancient seafaring goes back thousands of years before that with the Greeks (3000 BC), the Mycenaeans (2000 BC, the Minoans (2500 BC, the Phoenicians (1500 BC) and many others in the area and in other places around the Earth.

Not exact matches

At the risk of getting way off - topic, some in - depth study of ancient Chinese seafaring would be of interest (at least to me.)

Some of the site's most evocative evidence for the ancient Egyptians» seafaring prowess is concealed behind a modern steel door set into a cliff just 700 feet or so from the Red Sea shore.

These ancient indigenous inhabitants, many of them ancestors to the modern Tsimshian, were a seafaring people who first encountered Europeans in the early 1700s.

It was from parts of this branch that ancient people had shaped the first seafaring craft, and it was from its sprouts that came all trees fit for building ships.

They are among several Middle - Eastern breeds that were bartered around the Mediterranean basin in the distant past by the Phoenicians, wily seafaring traders of the pre-Roman ancient world.

Visit the Archaeological Museum or Aegean Maritime Museum displaying ancient and nautical artifacts relating to the island's seafaring heritage.