Browsing HCA Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "The Classics"
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Crown Jewel of the Fleet: Design, Construction, and Use of the Seagoing Balsa of the Pre-Columbian Andean Coast
(International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, 2012)The seaworthiness of the balsa sailing raft, and the seafaring aptitude of those who built and sailed it, has been the subject of critically biased, often conflicting accounts over the nearly five centuries since contact. ... -
Odysseus’ Boat? New Mycenaean Evidence from the Egyptian New Kingdom
(Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2014)In 1920, a small wooden ship model was discovered in a shallow tomb in Gurob, near the Faiyum oasis in Middle Egypt. Incorrectly assembled (twice) but perceptively labeled as a “Pirate Boat” by the overseer of its excavation, ...