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Description: Egyptian ship on the Red Sea, about 1250 B.C. [From Torr's "Ancient Ships"]. Mr. Lanton Cole calls attention to the rope truss in this illustration, stiffening the beam of the ship. A similar device was later used in Greek triremes.
Title: Wells egyptian ship red sea
Credit: Wells, H. G. (1920). The Outline of History. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc..
Author: H. G. Wells
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