This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean

Fast, maneuverable, and dangerous, the trireme was the most feared ship in ancient Greece. With powerful bronze rams and the ability to turn on a dime, it would leave enemy ships dead in the water by punching holes in their sides or smashing their oars. In his Histories, Herodotus writes how Greek naval dominance owed so much to the brilliant use of triremes in battle.

In the fifth century B.C., Athenian shipyards had the capacity for over 300 triremes, the most famous warships of antiquity. The trireme—a term derived from the Greek trieres, “three rows of oars”—was the result of the continuous development of naval technology in the Greek world. The epic poem Iliad (attributed to Homer, and written in the eighth century B.C.) mentions ships called triaconters and penteconters, vessels that were crewed by 30 or 50 men, respectively. Biremes, with two rows of oarsmen, are recorded on eighth-century B.C. reliefs. At the beginning of the seventh century B.C., accumulated experience led to new technical advances, and the much more sophisticated trireme model appeared.

(Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)

This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean

Fast, maneuverable, and dangerous, the trireme was the most feared ship in ancient Greece. With powerful bronze rams and the ability to turn on a dime, it would leave enemy ships dead in the water by punching holes in their sides or smashing their oars. In his Histories, Herodotus writes how Greek naval dominance owed so much to the brilliant use of triremes in battle.

In the fifth century B.C., Athenian shipyards had the capacity for over 300 triremes, the most famous warships of antiquity. The trireme—a term derived from the Greek trieres, “three rows of oars”—was the result of the continuous development of naval technology in the Greek world. The epic poem Iliad (attributed to Homer, and written in the eighth century B.C.) mentions ships called triaconters and penteconters, vessels that were crewed by 30 or 50 men, respectively. Biremes, with two rows of oarsmen, are recorded on eighth-century B.C. reliefs. At the beginning of the seventh century B.C., accumulated experience led to new technical advances, and the much more sophisticated trireme model appeared.

(Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)

This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean

Fast, maneuverable, and dangerous, the trireme was the most feared ship in ancient Greece. With powerful bronze rams and the ability to turn on a dime, it would leave enemy ships dead in the water by punching holes in their sides or smashing their oars. In his Histories, Herodotus writes how Greek naval dominance owed so much to the brilliant use of triremes in battle.

In the fifth century B.C., Athenian shipyards had the capacity for over 300 triremes, the most famous warships of antiquity. The trireme—a term derived from the Greek trieres, “three rows of oars”—was the result of the continuous development of naval technology in the Greek world. The epic poem Iliad (attributed to Homer, and written in the eighth century B.C.) mentions ships called triaconters and penteconters, vessels that were crewed by 30 or 50 men, respectively. Biremes, with two rows of oarsmen, are recorded on eighth-century B.C. reliefs. At the beginning of the seventh century B.C., accumulated experience led to new technical advances, and the much more sophisticated trireme model appeared.

(Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)

This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean

Fast, maneuverable, and dangerous, the trireme was the most feared ship in ancient Greece. With powerful bronze rams and the ability to turn on a dime, it would leave enemy ships dead in the water by punching holes in their sides or smashing their oars. In his Histories, Herodotus writes how Greek naval dominance owed so much to the brilliant use of triremes in battle.

In the fifth century B.C., Athenian shipyards had the capacity for over 300 triremes, the most famous warships of antiquity. The trireme—a term derived from the Greek trieres, “three rows of oars”—was the result of the continuous development of naval technology in the Greek world. The epic poem Iliad (attributed to Homer, and written in the eighth century B.C.) mentions ships called triaconters and penteconters, vessels that were crewed by 30 or 50 men, respectively. Biremes, with two rows of oarsmen, are recorded on eighth-century B.C. reliefs. At the beginning of the seventh century B.C., accumulated experience led to new technical advances, and the much more sophisticated trireme model appeared.

(Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)

This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean

Fast, maneuverable, and dangerous, the trireme was the most feared ship in ancient Greece. With powerful bronze rams and the ability to turn on a dime, it would leave enemy ships dead in the water by punching holes in their sides or smashing their oars. In his Histories, Herodotus writes how Greek naval dominance owed so much to the brilliant use of triremes in battle.

In the fifth century B.C., Athenian shipyards had the capacity for over 300 triremes, the most famous warships of antiquity. The trireme—a term derived from the Greek trieres, “three rows of oars”—was the result of the continuous development of naval technology in the Greek world. The epic poem Iliad (attributed to Homer, and written in the eighth century B.C.) mentions ships called triaconters and penteconters, vessels that were crewed by 30 or 50 men, respectively. Biremes, with two rows of oarsmen, are recorded on eighth-century B.C. reliefs. At the beginning of the seventh century B.C., accumulated experience led to new technical advances, and the much more sophisticated trireme model appeared.

(Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)

Pé-grande: Ciência pode ter encontrado explicação para a lenda da criatura gigante

Um dos mais populares folclores dos EUA e do Canadá, a lenda do Pé-grande pode ter ganhado um suporte científico - que não confirma a existência de um imenso e ameaçador símio vivendo nas florestas geladas da América do Norte, mas explicaria as muitas pegadas encontradas e aparições registradas já apontadas como indícios da existência da criatura.

De acordo com levantamento realizado pelo cientista Floe Foxon, as marcas deixadas na neve pelo suposto pé de grandes dimensões que batiza a lenda seriam não de um primata de tamanho extraordinário, mas sim de ursos-negros.

Para apontar tal explicação, Foxon estudou os registros de supostas aparições, levantados desde meados do século 20 pela Organização de Pesquisadores de Campo do Pé-grande, cruzando os locais onde as pessoas afirmaram ter visto a criatura com informações sobre as regiões onde os ursos também são encontrados.

Os ursos-negros adultos alcançam dois metros de comprimento, podem pesar cerca de 280kg e se colocam sobre duas patas para alcançar uma visão mais ampla do horizonte ou para caçar.

A pesquisa explica, portanto, o motivo pelo qual os relatos de aparições do Pé-grande não são tão comuns em estados como Texas e a Flórida, onde a espécie de urso também é rara. Mesmo em outras regiões em que a denúncia de avistamentos também é recorrente, como nos Himalaias, onde a lenda do Yeti funciona como uma versão asiática do Pé-grande, a explicação pode estar também em ursos ou outros animais, que não seriam devidamente identificados provavelmente pelo temor causado pela própria aparição.

Análises prévias já relacionaram as visões da criatura, também conhecida como “Sasquatch”, com as populações de ursos-negros, mas até então o cruzamento de dados completo não havia sido realizado. “Baseado em considerações estatísticas, é provável que muitas aparições do suposto Sasquatch são, na realidade, formas conhecidas mal identificadas. Se o Pé-grande apareceu por lá, é provável que sejam ursos”, diz a pesquisa. “Os avistamentos do Sasquatch estão estatística e significativamente associados com populações de urso de tal forma que, em média, uma aparição é esperada para cada 900 ursos”.

(Fonte: Hypeness – adaptado.)