Post #1415015
2026-03-24 00:59 UTC
this blog post has more pictures of the replica Argo, its study model and more (mostly hypothetical) details about other bronze-age ships.
note that we don't have a whole lot of particulars on bronze-age ship building - landscape paintings on frescoes and doodles on pots are major sources for the details. there's a few shipwrecks to look at but I think most of them are rounder merchant vessels and not sleek galleys (like the Argo).
https://medium.com/the-bronze-age/the-bronze-age-ancestry-of-ancient-sailing-vessels-ffa9b7effd17
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@floatybirb@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 01:03
the documentary also left me with a lot of questions (why did sail break? how and when did they fix? did the argonauts just poop off the side of the boat? why was turkey being a dick? why did the one escort boat company betray them? who arranged for the other escort boat, why did they decide on a 50-oared pentekonter) but anyway life is full of mysteries.