010 - Taking Care of Business (on the Nile)

Episode 10 January 26, 2015 00:30:58
010 - Taking Care of Business (on the Nile)
The Maritime History Podcast
010 - Taking Care of Business (on the Nile)

Jan 26 2015 | 00:30:58

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Show Notes

In today's episode we're going to look at the evidence of heavy-transport shipping throughout Egypt's history. Their many monumental building projects required the transportation of staggering amounts of material, and there is evidence from Pliny the Elder and Herodotus that much of this transport was accomplished by shipping up and down the Nile. We'll look at the various theories for how objects weighing hundreds of tons were loaded and shipped on the Nile, and we'll see a few depictions of such ships from the pyramid of Unas and the temple of Hatshepsut.

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