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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick, and it's Saturday, so we're going into the vault for an older

episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

This is part two of our series about the ore-powered galleys and warships of the ancient Mediterranean.

This one originally published on August 22nd, 2024. Enjoy.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to blow your mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two in our series on the ore-powered galleys of the ancient world.

Now, if you haven't heard part one yet, you might want to go listen to that first, but in the previous episode, we talked about Ptolemy, the fourth of Egypt's great oarship, which allegedly was built in the third century BCE. We have no physical remains, only historical descriptions. But Rob, what were some good details on that? It allegedly had like thousands of people manning it. Yes, just an unreasonable amount of oars and oarsmen,

but would have been essentially an ancient world aircraft carrier, though, of course, not for

aircraft, but for at least troops, if not maybe siege equipment.

The general consensus has often been that this is not a practical war vessel, but just a way of

showing off.

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